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

AI bot milestones

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

User agentHits
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like …
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Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; SEOJuice-SearchB…
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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 16_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHT…
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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; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123
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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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PipericBot/1.0 (+https://piperic.com/bot)
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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) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)…
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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; SiteAuditBot/0.97; +http://www.semrush.com/bot.html)
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TheWebReport/1.0; +https://theweb.report
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CCBot/2.0 (https://commoncrawl.org/faq/) Common Crawl
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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 (Linux; U; Android 13; sk-sk; Xiaomi 11T Pro Build/TKQ1.220829.002) …
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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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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12…
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)…
3

Recent hits

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2026-09-30 22:12 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36…
2026-09-30 12:42 Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_3 like Mac OS X) Apple…
2026-09-30 07:49 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20…
2026-09-30 05:05 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-09-30 02:12 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatibl… Anthropic
2026-09-30 01:25 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36…
2026-09-30 01:25 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36…
2026-09-30 01:24 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36…
2026-09-30 01:22 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-09-29 09:12 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-09-29 04:39 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-09-29 04:19 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-09-29 04:09 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-09-29 03:42 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-09-29 01:18 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-09-28 22:28 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36…
2026-09-28 03:15 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 …
2026-09-28 01:37 Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_3 like Mac OS X) Apple…
2026-09-27 17:21 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36…
2026-09-27 12:12 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-09-25 22:48 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/…
2026-09-25 17:03 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-09-25 16:43 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-09-25 15:03 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/…
2026-09-25 09:30 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36…
2026-09-25 05:15 PipericBot/1.0 (+https://piperic.com/bot)
2026-09-25 04:28 PipericBot/1.0 (+https://piperic.com/bot)
2026-09-25 02:43 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-09-25 02:42 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…
2026-09-25 01:48 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatib…