Websites blocking PanguBot
A Huawei crawler token associated with training data collection for its PanGu language models.
Operated by Huawei · Training crawler
3.63%
block PanguBot
903K of 24.91 million domains with a known robots.txt policy
0.12%
block it by name
30,721 domains, the rest inherit a blanket
* block
<0.01%
restrict it by name
1,461 domains name it and close some of its paths
0.13%
name it in robots.txt
32,679 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: PanguBot blocks and blanket
* blocks the crawler inherits.
Historical mentions, HTTP Archive
0.1%
0.2%
Jun 2024
Jan 2025
Jul 2025
Jan 2026
Jul 2026
Share of sites in each month's
HTTP Archive crawl whose robots.txt named
PanguBot. 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 PanguBot by name
| Domain | OPROpen Page Rank | Blocking since |
|---|---|---|
| usatoday.com | 9.08/10 | Aug 2026 |
| tripadvisor.com | 9.05/10 | Aug 2026 |
| congress.gov | 9.05/10 | Aug 2026 |
| msn.com | 9.04/10 | Aug 2026 |
| newyorker.com | 8.90/10 | Aug 2026 |
| mashable.com | 8.87/10 | Aug 2026 |
| arstechnica.com | 8.84/10 | Aug 2026 |
| gizmodo.com | 8.82/10 | Aug 2026 |
| pcmag.com | 8.80/10 | Aug 2026 |
| slate.com | 8.80/10 | Aug 2026 |
| amazon.it | 8.78/10 | Aug 2026 |
| adweek.com | 8.77/10 | Aug 2026 |
| ardmediathek.de | 8.77/10 | Aug 2026 |
| fliphtml5.com | 8.75/10 | Aug 2026 |
| tagesschau.de | 8.73/10 | Aug 2026 |
| rfi.fr | 8.73/10 | Aug 2026 |
| metro.co.uk | 8.72/10 | Aug 2026 |
| tagesspiegel.de | 8.71/10 | Aug 2026 |
| repubblica.it | 8.71/10 | Aug 2026 |
| ndr.de | 8.70/10 | Aug 2026 |
| france24.com | 8.68/10 | Aug 2026 |
| wdr.de | 8.67/10 | Aug 2026 |
| launchpad.net | 8.63/10 | Aug 2026 |
| computerworld.com | 8.63/10 | Aug 2026 |
| vermont.gov | 8.63/10 | Aug 2026 |
| swr.de | 8.63/10 | Aug 2026 |
| fedoraproject.org | 8.62/10 | Aug 2026 |
| nintendo.com | 8.62/10 | Aug 2026 |
| tripadvisor.co.uk | 8.61/10 | Aug 2026 |
| francebleu.fr | 8.61/10 | Aug 2026 |
Sites whose robots.txt names PanguBot (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.