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wtop.com · United States · Hubbard Publishing Company · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,320 bytes. 10 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /page/*/?s=
Disallow: /search/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

User-agent: *
Disallow: /profile/

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioRssBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CriteoBot/0.1
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Exabot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: msrbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: sentibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: serpstatbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sogou
Disallow: /

User-agent: trendictionbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YoudaoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow:
Sitemap: https://wtop.com/sitemap.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United States
63.2% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
No
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