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CrawlerPulse / Europe / United Kingdom / thecanary.co

The Canary

thecanary.co · United Kingdom · measured 9 Oct 2026

Google Search
Allowed
Google-Extended
Allowed
OpenAI
Allowed
Anthropic
Allowed
Perplexity
Allowed
Meta
Allowed
Common Crawl
Allowed
ByteDance
Allowed
Apple
Allowed
Amazon
Allowed

robots.txt

As read on 9 Oct 2026, 654 bytes. No rule names an AI crawler.

User-Agent: *
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Sitemap: https://www.thecanary.co/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thecanary.co/news-sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: *
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /page/*?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*cat=plus-5-results
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /*/feed/
Disallow: /*/feed
Disallow: /*?*fbclid=
Disallow: /*?*utm_

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United Kingdom
73.8% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
Yes