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AI crawler blocking on .es sites

Latest sealed date 2026-08-07.

The panel contains 548 .es domains. On 2026-08-07, 342 of them served a robots.txt we could parse; 134 could not be reached at all and have no observed policy. Of the parsed ones, 109 (31.9%) name at least one tracked AI crawler and 85 (24.9%) block at least one site-wide. 8 block every crawler via the wildcard group, counted separately.

In the latest sealed reading for .es on 2026-08-07, 30 tracked crawler tokens were named by at least one observed file: ClaudeBot: 72 named, 59 blocked site-wide; GPTBot: 71 named, 59 blocked site-wide; CCBot: 69 named, 61 blocked site-wide; Bytespider: 61 named, 58 blocked site-wide; meta-externalagent: 53 named, 47 blocked site-wide; Google-Extended: 50 named, 36 blocked site-wide; Applebot-Extended: 49 named, 44 blocked site-wide; PerplexityBot: 49 named, 34 blocked site-wide; Amazonbot: 47 named, 45 blocked site-wide; ChatGPT-User: 44 named, 29 blocked site-wide; OAI-SearchBot: 37 named, 23 blocked site-wide; anthropic-ai: 34 named, 28 blocked site-wide; AI2Bot: 28 named, 28 blocked site-wide; Diffbot: 26 named, 26 blocked site-wide; Claude-SearchBot: 25 named, 22 blocked site-wide; cohere-ai: 24 named, 21 blocked site-wide; FacebookBot: 24 named, 13 blocked site-wide; DuckAssistBot: 23 named, 21 blocked site-wide; omgilibot: 23 named, 22 blocked site-wide; cohere-training-data-crawler: 22 named, 22 blocked site-wide; omgili: 22 named, 22 blocked site-wide; Timpibot: 20 named, 20 blocked site-wide; PanguBot: 19 named, 19 blocked site-wide; Claude-Web: 17 named, 12 blocked site-wide; Perplexity-User: 14 named, 10 blocked site-wide; Claude-User: 13 named, 11 blocked site-wide; Google-CloudVertexBot: 12 named, 10 blocked site-wide; meta-externalfetcher: 11 named, 9 blocked site-wide; MistralAI-User: 11 named, 9 blocked site-wide; ImagesiftBot: 10 named, 9 blocked site-wide. Each entry keeps the named count before the fully-blocked count. A tracked token absent from the list had zero observed mentions; the counts describe file declarations, not crawler behavior.

What "suffix" means here. The final DNS label, not the effective top-level domain. A .co.uk site is counted under .uk. Computing a true effective TLD needs the Public Suffix List, which this surface does not ship, and approximating one would put a wrong denominator under every figure on this page.

Every tracked crawler on .es

CrawlerOperatorNames itBlocks outright% of parsed
ClaudeBotAnthropic725917.3%
GPTBotOpenAI715917.3%
CCBotCommon Crawl696117.8%
BytespiderByteDance615817.0%
meta-externalagentMeta534713.7%
Google-ExtendedGoogle503610.5%
Applebot-ExtendedApple494412.9%
PerplexityBotPerplexity49349.9%
AmazonbotAmazon474513.2%
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI44298.5%
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI37236.7%
anthropic-aiAnthropic34288.2%
AI2BotAi228288.2%
DiffbotDiffbot26267.6%
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic25226.4%
cohere-aiCohere24216.1%
FacebookBotMeta24133.8%
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo23216.1%
omgilibotWebz.io23226.4%
cohere-training-data-crawlerCohere22226.4%
omgiliWebz.io22226.4%
TimpibotTimpi20205.8%
PanguBotHuawei19195.6%
Claude-WebAnthropic17123.5%
Perplexity-UserPerplexity14102.9%
Claude-UserAnthropic13113.2%
Google-CloudVertexBotGoogle12102.9%
meta-externalfetcherMeta1192.6%
MistralAI-UserMistral1192.6%
ImagesiftBotImageSift1092.6%

Blocks outright — the file has a group for that exact product token containing Disallow: / with no overriding allow. Partly restricts — a group exists with at least one non-empty Disallow, but not the whole site. Names & allows — a group exists with no effective Disallow. Everything else is not mentioned: the wildcard * group governs it, and wildcard effects are counted separately rather than folded in, because a site that blocks everything has not made a decision about any AI crawler in particular. Matching is exact and case-insensitive per RFC 9309 — never substring.

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14 newest sealed readings for .es

For each date, the table keeps the panel count beside the parseable robots.txt denominator, the sites naming or blocking a tracked AI crawler, and wildcard blocks. Unreachable or unusable responses are excluded rather than treated as permissive. These are aggregate observations of published files, not crawler behavior or the intent behind a declaration.

Across the 14 sealed readings shown for .es, the newest recorded 342 domains publishing a parseable robots.txt, against an observed low of 338 on 2026-07-30 and a high of 343 on 2026-07-25. In the newest reading, 109 named at least one tracked AI crawler (range 108 on 2026-08-01 to 111 on 2026-07-31), while 85 blocked at least one (range 84 on 2026-08-01 to 86 on 2026-08-05). These are aggregate observations of published files. A movement can reflect changed fetch coverage as well as a changed file; it does not describe motive or crawler behavior.

Sealed datePanel domainsParsedNames anyBlocks anyWildcard block
2026-08-07548342109858
2026-08-06548340108848
2026-08-05548340110868
2026-08-04548341110868
2026-08-03548339110868
2026-08-02548339109858
2026-08-01548339108848
2026-07-31548339111868
2026-07-30548338110858
2026-07-29548341110857
2026-07-28548339111868
2026-07-27548339110858
2026-07-26548339109858
2026-07-25548343110868
Read this before quoting a trend. We hold 55 sealed daily snapshots between 2026-06-09 and 2026-08-07, out of 60 calendar days. 5 calendar day(s) inside that span have no collection run at all: 2026-06-11, 2026-06-12, 2026-06-19, 2026-07-04, 2026-07-15. Consecutive rows in every table below are consecutive SEALED dates, not consecutive days — where a gap falls, that row's diff covers more than 24 hours, and the span is printed with it. We do not interpolate across a day we did not collect.

Observed AI-crawler verdict changes on .es

Across the sealed archive, 114 crawler-verdict transitions were attributed to .es domains on 14 sealed change dates. The newest aggregate movements are listed below; no domain name or fetched file body is published.

Sealed dateCrawlerVerdict movedDomains
2026-08-06Google-Extendedblocked outright → partly restricted1
2026-07-30AI2Botnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-30DuckAssistBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-30meta-externalagentnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-29AI2Botnot mentioned → blocked outright10
2026-07-29ChatGPT-Usernot mentioned → blocked outright10
2026-07-29DuckAssistBotnot mentioned → blocked outright10
2026-07-29Google-Extendednot mentioned → blocked outright2
2026-07-28Bytespidernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-28CCBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-28ChatGPT-Usernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-28Claude-Webblocked outright → not mentioned1
2026-07-28ClaudeBotblocked outright → not mentioned1
2026-07-28GPTBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-28OAI-SearchBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-28PerplexityBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-24Amazonbotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-24Applebot-Extendednot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-24Bytespidernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-24CCBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-24ClaudeBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-24Google-Extendednot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-24Google-Extendedblocked outright → not mentioned1
2026-07-24GPTBotnamed and allowed → blocked outright1
2026-07-24meta-externalagentnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-22CCBotnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-07-22ChatGPT-Usernot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-07-22ClaudeBotnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-07-22Google-Extendednot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-07-22PerplexityBotnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-07-11Claude-SearchBotnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-06-25ClaudeBotnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-06-24Bytespidernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-06-24ClaudeBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-06-24meta-externalagentnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-06-21Amazonbotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-06-21Applebot-Extendednot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-06-21Bytespidernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-06-21CCBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-06-21ClaudeBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1

Compiled from each site's own published /robots.txt, /ai.txt, /llms.txt and /.well-known/tdmrep.json, fetched daily over a frozen 100,000-domain research panel (source list: Tranco; no Tranco rank is republished here). Verdicts are mechanical readings of what those files say under RFC 9309 grouping with exact product-token matching — they are not legal advice, not a statement about any site's intentions, and not a claim about what any crawler actually did. A robots.txt is a request, not an access control. Figures are provided for informational purposes only and carry no warranty of accuracy or completeness.

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