Websites blocking ImagesiftBot
An image-focused crawler operated by Hive that collects pictures from the web. Hive sells AI models and data services built on such collections.
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4.37%
block ImagesiftBot
1.08 million of 24.68 million domains with a known robots.txt policy
0.74%
block it by name
182K domains, the rest inherit a blanket
* block
0.02%
restrict it by name
5,340 domains name it and close some of its paths
0.78%
name it in robots.txt
192K domains give it rules of their own
Data for Oct 2026. All four percentages
divide by the same 24.68 million domains. Blocked counts both
explicit User-agent: ImagesiftBot blocks and blanket
* blocks the crawler inherits.
Blocking trend
2%
4%
6%
Aug 2026
Sep 2026
Oct 2026
Share of domains with a known robots.txt policy
blocking ImagesiftBot in each monthly crawl. The denominator moves with each crawl and is
defined in the methodology.
Historical mentions, HTTP Archive
0.5%
1%
1.5%
Dec 2023
Sep 2024
May 2025
Jan 2026
Sep 2026
Share of sites in each month's
HTTP Archive crawl whose robots.txt named
ImagesiftBot. 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 ImagesiftBot by name
| Domain | OPROpen Page Rank | Blocking since |
|---|---|---|
| vimeo.com | 9.54/10 | Oct 2026 |
| cloudfront.net | 9.47/10 | Oct 2026 |
| nytimes.com | 9.28/10 | Aug 2026 |
| tumblr.com | 9.27/10 | Aug 2026 |
| yahoo.com | 9.27/10 | Oct 2026 |
| cnn.com | 9.16/10 | Oct 2026 |
| amazon.co.jp | 9.16/10 | Sep 2026 |
| amazon.de | 9.13/10 | Oct 2026 |
| usatoday.com | 9.08/10 | Sep 2026 |
| giphy.com | 9.07/10 | Oct 2026 |
| sagepub.com | 9.07/10 | Oct 2026 |
| bandcamp.com | 9.06/10 | Aug 2026 |
| fastcompany.com | 9.00/10 | Oct 2026 |
| upenn.edu | 9.00/10 | Oct 2026 |
| quora.com | 8.92/10 | Aug 2026 |
| uol.com.br | 8.92/10 | Oct 2026 |
| mashable.com | 8.87/10 | Sep 2026 |
| francetvinfo.fr | 8.87/10 | Sep 2026 |
| axios.com | 8.86/10 | Oct 2026 |
| unc.edu | 8.83/10 | Oct 2026 |
| gizmodo.com | 8.82/10 | Aug 2026 |
| radiofrance.fr | 8.82/10 | Aug 2026 |
| wikihow.com | 8.81/10 | Aug 2026 |
| venturebeat.com | 8.80/10 | Aug 2026 |
| pcmag.com | 8.80/10 | Aug 2026 |
| technologyreview.com | 8.78/10 | Oct 2026 |
| welt.de | 8.78/10 | Oct 2026 |
| fliphtml5.com | 8.75/10 | Oct 2026 |
| iop.org | 8.75/10 | Oct 2026 |
| epfl.ch | 8.74/10 | Oct 2026 |
Sites whose robots.txt names ImagesiftBot (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.