'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.
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
| User agent | Hits |
|---|---|
| Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like … | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Dataprovider.com) | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)… | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko;… | |
| llms.txt-crawler/1.0 (research) | |
| llms.txt crawler bot (+https://llmstxtscan.org; opt-out@llmstxtscan.org) | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like … | |
| TheWebReport/1.0; +https://theweb.report | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) … | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ReconTool/1.0) | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14… | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; Moto G (4)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like G… | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14… | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; Moto G (4)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like G… | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14… | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; Moto G (4)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like G… | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/1… | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SiteAuditBot/0.97; +http://www.semrush.com/bot.html) | |
| PipericBot/1.0 (+https://piperic.com/bot) | |
| CCBot/2.0 (https://commoncrawl.org/faq/) Common Crawl | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) … | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (K… | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (johnmu - the llms-whisperer - here to read your file - not a bot - … | |
| Panzilla/5.0 (hi, it's pantelis. came for the fame \o/) | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14… |
| Time | User agent |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 17:16 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36… |
| 2026-08-10 23:00 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36… |
| 2026-08-10 13:53 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36… |
| 2026-08-10 07:15 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 … |
| 2026-08-10 00:06 | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Dataprovider.com) |
| 2026-08-09 17:17 | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SiteAuditBot/0.97; +http://www.semr… |
| 2026-08-08 17:26 | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Dataprovider.com) |
| 2026-08-08 03:30 | CCBot/2.0 (https://commoncrawl.org/faq/) Common Crawl |
| 2026-08-07 06:31 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36… |
| 2026-08-07 06:07 | Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_1_2 like Mac OS X) App… |
| 2026-08-06 15:30 | Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_3_1 like Mac OS X) App… |
| 2026-08-04 10:59 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-04 08:53 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-04 01:56 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-04 00:40 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-03 18:27 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-03 08:30 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-03 05:28 | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Dataprovider.com) |
| 2026-08-03 02:50 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-03 01:06 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-02 20:45 | Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_3_1 like Mac OS X) App… |
| 2026-08-02 17:28 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-02 15:06 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-02 10:02 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-02 02:55 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-02 02:16 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-01 18:15 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-01 18:04 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-01 17:34 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |
| 2026-08-01 16:10 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/… |