Websites blocking ChatGPT-User
The user-agent ChatGPT uses when it fetches a page on behalf of a user, for example to answer a question about a link. It acts on direct user requests rather than crawling on a schedule.
Operated by OpenAI · User-request fetcher · operator documentation
3.96%
block ChatGPT-User
987K of 24.91 million domains with a known robots.txt policy
0.64%
block it by name
161K domains, the rest inherit a blanket
* block
0.48%
restrict it by name
119K domains name it and close some of its paths
1.81%
name it in robots.txt
451K domains give it rules of their own
Data for Aug 2026. All four percentages
divide by the same 24.91 million domains. Blocked counts both
explicit User-agent: ChatGPT-User blocks and blanket
* blocks the crawler inherits.
Historical mentions, HTTP Archive
1%
2%
3%
Apr 2023
Feb 2024
Dec 2024
Oct 2025
Jul 2026
Share of sites in each month's
HTTP Archive crawl whose robots.txt named
ChatGPT-User. This series counts
mentions only (the archive keeps no rule text), comes from a different population than our own
crawl above, and the two are never merged.
High-authority sites blocking ChatGPT-User by name
| Domain | OPROpen Page Rank | Blocking since |
|---|---|---|
| linkedin.com | 9.82/10 | Aug 2026 |
| nytimes.com | 9.28/10 | Aug 2026 |
| sagepub.com | 9.07/10 | Aug 2026 |
| lnkd.in | 9.05/10 | Aug 2026 |
| congress.gov | 9.05/10 | Aug 2026 |
| msn.com | 9.04/10 | Aug 2026 |
| cambridge.org | 9.04/10 | Aug 2026 |
| abc.net.au | 9.04/10 | Aug 2026 |
| science.org | 8.95/10 | Aug 2026 |
| lefigaro.fr | 8.95/10 | Aug 2026 |
| usgs.gov | 8.95/10 | Aug 2026 |
| quora.com | 8.92/10 | Aug 2026 |
| huffpost.com | 8.91/10 | Aug 2026 |
| claude.ai | 8.87/10 | Aug 2026 |
| mashable.com | 8.87/10 | Aug 2026 |
| francetvinfo.fr | 8.87/10 | Aug 2026 |
| smh.com.au | 8.86/10 | Aug 2026 |
| thelancet.com | 8.85/10 | Aug 2026 |
| wikihow.com | 8.81/10 | Aug 2026 |
| aljazeera.com | 8.81/10 | Aug 2026 |
| pcmag.com | 8.80/10 | Aug 2026 |
| technologyreview.com | 8.78/10 | Aug 2026 |
| amazon.it | 8.78/10 | Aug 2026 |
| hotpepper.jp | 8.76/10 | Aug 2026 |
| ucl.ac.uk | 8.74/10 | Aug 2026 |
| rfi.fr | 8.73/10 | Aug 2026 |
| metro.co.uk | 8.72/10 | Aug 2026 |
| ctvnews.ca | 8.72/10 | Aug 2026 |
| yomiuri.co.jp | 8.69/10 | Aug 2026 |
| france24.com | 8.68/10 | Aug 2026 |
Sites whose robots.txt names ChatGPT-User (or a legacy
alias) with a full block, ranked by Open Page Rank. Sites blocking every crawler with a blanket
* rule are counted above but not listed here. Since dates start at our first
observation of the rule.