Websites blocking ClaudeBot
Anthropic's primary web crawler, used to collect public web data that can support training of the Claude models.
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9.74%
block ClaudeBot
2.43 million of 24.91 million domains with a known robots.txt policy
6.41%
block it by name
1.6 million domains, the rest inherit a blanket
* block
2.68%
restrict it by name
668K domains name it and close some of its paths
9.91%
name it in robots.txt
2.47 million 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: ClaudeBot blocks and blanket
* blocks the crawler inherits.
Historical mentions, HTTP Archive
2.5%
5%
7.5%
10%
Jun 2023
Apr 2024
Feb 2025
Oct 2025
Jul 2026
Share of sites in each month's
HTTP Archive crawl whose robots.txt named
ClaudeBot (or a legacy alias of it). 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 ClaudeBot by name
| Domain | OPROpen Page Rank | Blocking since |
|---|---|---|
| linkedin.com | 9.82/10 | Aug 2026 |
| fbcdn.net | 9.40/10 | Aug 2026 |
| nytimes.com | 9.28/10 | Aug 2026 |
| tumblr.com | 9.27/10 | Aug 2026 |
| bbc.co.uk | 9.18/10 | Aug 2026 |
| bbc.com | 9.15/10 | Aug 2026 |
| cookielaw.org | 9.10/10 | Aug 2026 |
| usatoday.com | 9.08/10 | Aug 2026 |
| bandcamp.com | 9.06/10 | Aug 2026 |
| tripadvisor.com | 9.05/10 | Aug 2026 |
| lnkd.in | 9.05/10 | Aug 2026 |
| congress.gov | 9.05/10 | Aug 2026 |
| bizjournals.com | 9.04/10 | Aug 2026 |
| msn.com | 9.04/10 | Aug 2026 |
| mayoclinic.org | 9.04/10 | Aug 2026 |
| pexels.com | 9.03/10 | Aug 2026 |
| theatlantic.com | 9.01/10 | Aug 2026 |
| investopedia.com | 9.01/10 | Aug 2026 |
| hugedomains.com | 9.00/10 | Aug 2026 |
| uk.com | 9.00/10 | Aug 2026 |
| patreon.com | 8.99/10 | Aug 2026 |
| healthline.com | 8.98/10 | Aug 2026 |
| ebay.com | 8.95/10 | Aug 2026 |
| lefigaro.fr | 8.95/10 | Aug 2026 |
| ucla.edu | 8.93/10 | Aug 2026 |
| quora.com | 8.92/10 | Aug 2026 |
| utexas.edu | 8.92/10 | Aug 2026 |
| huffpost.com | 8.91/10 | Aug 2026 |
| newyorker.com | 8.90/10 | Aug 2026 |
| mashable.com | 8.87/10 | Aug 2026 |
Sites whose robots.txt names ClaudeBot (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.
Restricting some paths
- vimeo.com
- medium.com
- statista.com
- hbr.org
- jotform.com
- squarespace.com
- frontiersin.org
- iubenda.com
- theverge.com
- nbcnews.com
- netflix.com
- coursera.org
Also matched via
legacy tokens anthropic-ai, claude-web,
which some sites still use for this crawler.