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AI crawler blocking on .il sites

Latest sealed date 2026-08-07.

The panel contains 149 .il domains. On 2026-08-07, 104 of them served a robots.txt we could parse; 17 could not be reached at all and have no observed policy. Of the parsed ones, 17 (16.3%) name at least one tracked AI crawler and 9 (8.7%) block at least one site-wide. 0 block every crawler via the wildcard group, counted separately.

In the latest sealed reading for .il on 2026-08-07, 29 tracked crawler tokens were named by at least one observed file: GPTBot: 14 named, 7 blocked site-wide; ClaudeBot: 11 named, 5 blocked site-wide; Applebot-Extended: 9 named, 4 blocked site-wide; CCBot: 9 named, 6 blocked site-wide; ChatGPT-User: 9 named, 2 blocked site-wide; Google-Extended: 9 named, 5 blocked site-wide; meta-externalagent: 9 named, 6 blocked site-wide; OAI-SearchBot: 9 named, 1 blocked site-wide; anthropic-ai: 8 named, 3 blocked site-wide; Bytespider: 8 named, 5 blocked site-wide; PerplexityBot: 8 named, 1 blocked site-wide; Amazonbot: 7 named, 3 blocked site-wide; Claude-User: 5 named, 1 blocked site-wide; Claude-Web: 4 named, 2 blocked site-wide; cohere-ai: 4 named, 1 blocked site-wide; Perplexity-User: 4 named, 1 blocked site-wide; Claude-SearchBot: 3 named, 1 blocked site-wide; FacebookBot: 3 named, 2 blocked site-wide; meta-externalfetcher: 3 named, 2 blocked site-wide; Diffbot: 2 named, 1 blocked site-wide; ImagesiftBot: 2 named, 1 blocked site-wide; omgili: 2 named, 1 blocked site-wide; omgilibot: 2 named, 1 blocked site-wide; Timpibot: 2 named, 1 blocked site-wide; AI2Bot: 1 named, 0 blocked site-wide; cohere-training-data-crawler: 1 named, 0 blocked site-wide; DuckAssistBot: 1 named, 0 blocked site-wide; Google-CloudVertexBot: 1 named, 1 blocked site-wide; PanguBot: 1 named, 0 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 .il

CrawlerOperatorNames itBlocks outright% of parsed
GPTBotOpenAI1476.7%
ClaudeBotAnthropic1154.8%
Applebot-ExtendedApple943.8%
CCBotCommon Crawl965.8%
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI921.9%
Google-ExtendedGoogle954.8%
meta-externalagentMeta965.8%
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI911.0%
anthropic-aiAnthropic832.9%
BytespiderByteDance854.8%
PerplexityBotPerplexity811.0%
AmazonbotAmazon732.9%
Claude-UserAnthropic511.0%
Claude-WebAnthropic421.9%
cohere-aiCohere411.0%
Perplexity-UserPerplexity411.0%
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic311.0%
FacebookBotMeta321.9%
meta-externalfetcherMeta321.9%
DiffbotDiffbot211.0%
ImagesiftBotImageSift211.0%
omgiliWebz.io211.0%
omgilibotWebz.io211.0%
TimpibotTimpi211.0%
AI2BotAi2100.0%
cohere-training-data-crawlerCohere100.0%
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo100.0%
Google-CloudVertexBotGoogle111.0%
PanguBotHuawei100.0%

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 .il

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 .il, the newest recorded 104 domains publishing a parseable robots.txt, against an observed low of 100 on 2026-07-30 and a high of 105 on 2026-08-06. In the newest reading, 17 named at least one tracked AI crawler (range 13 on 2026-07-25 to 17 on 2026-08-07), while 9 blocked at least one (range 7 on 2026-07-25 to 9 on 2026-08-07). 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
2026-08-071491041790
2026-08-061491051680
2026-08-051491021680
2026-08-041491031680
2026-08-031491011480
2026-08-021491011480
2026-08-011491021480
2026-07-311491031480
2026-07-301491001480
2026-07-291491021480
2026-07-281491021480
2026-07-271491011480
2026-07-261491021370
2026-07-251491031370
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 .il

Across the sealed archive, 56 crawler-verdict transitions were attributed to .il domains on 6 sealed change dates. The newest aggregate movements are listed below; no domain name or fetched file body is published.

Sealed dateCrawlerVerdict movedDomains
2026-08-07anthropic-ainot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07CCBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07ChatGPT-Usernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07Claude-Webnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07Google-Extendednot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07GPTBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-04anthropic-ainot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-04Applebot-Extendednot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-04Bytespidernot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-04CCBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-04ChatGPT-Usernot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-04Claude-SearchBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-04Claude-Usernot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-04ClaudeBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-04GPTBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-04meta-externalagentnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-04OAI-SearchBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-04PerplexityBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-27anthropic-ainot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-27Applebot-Extendednot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-27Bytespidernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-27CCBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-27ChatGPT-Usernot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-27Claude-SearchBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-27Claude-Usernot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-27ClaudeBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-27Google-Extendednot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-27GPTBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-27meta-externalagentnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-27OAI-SearchBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-27Perplexity-Usernot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-27PerplexityBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-14anthropic-ainot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-14Applebot-Extendednot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-14CCBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-14ChatGPT-Usernot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-14Claude-Usernot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-14ClaudeBotnamed and allowed → partly restricted1
2026-07-14GPTBotnamed and allowed → partly restricted1
2026-07-14OAI-SearchBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1

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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