A daily robots.txt measurement across Germany’s top 1000 websites: which AI bots get locked out, how often — and what the 20 biggest sites do. All numbers are free to cite.
As of 19 October 2026 · Panel: Deutschland (CrUX Top-1000), 871 sites reachable
Share of reachable panel sites that lock out each bot via robots.txt, explicitly or with a blanket block (User-agent: *):
Every day the robots.txt of Germany’s top 1000 websites (CrUX panel) is measured; for 871 reachable sites the rules for 12 known AI crawlers are evaluated. A subset is additionally probed for server-side blocks (e.g. 403 for bot user agents).
“Blocked” here means: robots.txt locks out the bot explicitly or with a blanket block for all bots (User-agent: *). The interactive monitor shows server-side blocks separately; they are not part of these rates. Sites without a rule count as not blocking, and robots.txt is a request, not a technical barrier.
Tracked since 22 July 2026. The figures on this page come from the measurement dated above; the interactive AI Crawler Monitor shows the current day’s measurement.