wtf reads llms.txt?

'Everyone' says put a llms.txt on your site so AI systems know what to do with your content.
We're tracking whether any of them actually bother to read it — across multiple websites.

Tracking since 26 March 2026.

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Known LLM bots

As John Mueller, Google, points out, there are numerous llms.txt directories out there, which make llms.txt files findable for any crawler. Also, it is easy to force an LLM to read any public file. AI bots turning up here in the logs doesn't mean llms.txt does anything for a website's visibility. — Sam

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#1 ✓ Common Crawl 2026-07-22 15:10
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Top user agents

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Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; SEOJuice-SearchB…
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Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like …
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Dataprovider.com)
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)…
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko;…
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Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (K…
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)…
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)…
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115
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Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHT…
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) …
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)…
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Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (K…
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Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:123.0) Gecko/123.0 Firefox/123
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Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, lik…
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llms.txt-crawler/1.0 (research)
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llms.txt crawler bot (+https://llmstxtscan.org; opt-out@llmstxtscan.org)
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SiteAuditBot/0.97; +http://www.semrush.com/bot.html)
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PipericBot/1.0 (+https://piperic.com/bot)
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Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; SAMSUNG SM-A415F) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, lik…
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12…
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Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like …
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TheWebReport/1.0; +https://theweb.report
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CCBot/2.0 (https://commoncrawl.org/faq/) Common Crawl
3

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2026-10-29 10:39 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/…
2026-10-29 07:53 Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:123.0) Gecko/123.0 Firef…
2026-10-29 07:01 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-10-28 18:11 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-10-28 09:47 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-10-28 06:39 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36…
2026-10-28 03:26 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36…
2026-10-27 10:13 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-10-27 07:17 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
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2026-10-26 23:06 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20…
2026-10-26 06:08 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; SAMSUNG SM-A415F) AppleWebKi…
2026-10-26 01:49 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36… Meta
2026-10-25 18:42 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
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2026-10-24 13:04 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14; SM-S901B) AppleWebKit/537.36…
2026-10-24 07:40 FoundableResearch/0.1 (+https://foundable.com)
2026-10-24 00:52 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-10-23 12:30 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, l…