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Can you break down how robots.txt directives and server-side rendering configurations affect crawling by LLM-based web scrapers compared to traditional search bots?

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Can you break down how robots.txt directives and server-side rendering configurations affect crawling by LLM-based web scrapers compared to traditional search bots?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
RFC 9309 robots exclusion protocol Googlebot JavaScript rendering documentation OpenAI crawler user agents GPTBot OAI-SearchBot documentationGoogle ↗
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Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.

Query classes

Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

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Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 1 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
RFC 9309 robots exclusion protocol Googlebot JavaScript rendering documentation OpenAI crawler user agents GPTBot OAI-SearchBot documentation Google ↗
  1. Overview of OpenAI Crawlers · developers.openai.com
  2. Understand JavaScript SEO Basics | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google for Developers · developers.google.com
  3. Open Search Console · search.google.com
  4. Open testing tool · search.google.com
  5. Open Bing Webmaster Tools · bing.com
  6. Visit website · screamingfrog.co.uk
  7. OpenAI crawler documentation · developers.openai.com

Queries

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Query / typeSearchIntentQuery classRouting formatClusterFreq ↓Weight
RFC 9309 robots exclusion protocol Googlebot JavaScript rendering documentation OpenAI crawler user agents GPTBot OAI-SearchBot documentation
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