Does canva.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite canva.com?

• ChatGPT search: its search crawlers may read the site
• Claude: its search crawlers may read the site
• Perplexity: its search crawlers may read the site

canva.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple, Common Crawl, ByteDance, Meta. Training crawlers and answer crawlers are separate: blocking training doesn't by itself remove a site from AI answers.

AI crawler access, bot by bot

How canva.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; canva.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; canva.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; canva.com does not.
• Among 193 sites of similar popularity, 34% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: 
Disallow: /media/*
Disallow: /template/*
Disallow: /_ok
Disallow: /_blank
Disallow: *v=
Disallow: *utm_expid=
Disallow: *source=
Disallow: *utm_source=
Disallow: *utm_campaign=
Disallow: *utm_content=
Disallow: *__hstc=
Disallow: *reviews_page=
Disallow: *gclid=
Disallow: *magazineName=
Disallow: *_ga=
Disallow: *like=
Disallow: *sp_url=
Disallow: *fbclid=
Disallow: *country=
Disallow: *company_size=
Disallow: *_hsenc=
Disallow: *zd_source=
Disallow: *wt.mc_id=
Disallow: *via=
Disallow: *utm_medium=
Disallow: *spc-source=
Disallow: *sp=
Disallow: *sort=
Disallow: *sf11500465=
Disallow: *sa=
Disallow: *ref=
Disallow: *preview=
Disallow: *pr=
Disallow: *o=
Disallow: *NoCode=
Disallow: *mod=
Disallow: *kui=
Disallow: *industry=
Disallow: *iframe=

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsIdxBot
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: LinkedInBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Canva-Slackapp-LinkExpanding
User-agent: Canva-Teamsapp-LinkExpanding
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /
Allow: /create/
Allow: /ar_eg/create/
Allow: /da_dk/skabe/
Allow: /de_de/erstellen/
Allow: /es_ar/crear/
Allow: /es_co/crear/
Allow: /es_es/crear/
Allow: /es_mx/crear/
Allow: /es_us/crear/
Allow: /fr_fr/creer/
Allow: /hi_in/banaye/
Allow: /id_id/membuat/
Allow: /it_it/creare/
Allow: /ja_jp/create/
Allow: /ko_kr/create/
Allow: /ms_my/buat/
Allow: /nb_no/skape/
Allow: /nl_nl/maken/
Allow: /pl_pl/tworzyc/
Allow: /pt_br/criar/
Allow: /pt_pt/criar/
Allow: /ru_ru/sozdat/
Allow: /sv_se/skapa/
Allow: /th_th/create/
Allow: /uk_ua/stvoryty/
Allow: /vi_vn/thiet-ke/
Allow: /zh_hk/create/
Allow: /zh_tw/create/
Allow: /features/
Allow: /ar_eg/features/
Allow: /da_dk/funktioner/
Allow: /de_de/funktionen/
Allow: /es_ar/funciones/
Allow: /es_co/funciones/
Allow: /es_es/funciones/
Allow: /es_mx/funciones/
Allow: /es_us/funciones/
Allow: /fr_fr/outils/
Allow: /hi_in/features/

User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: Ai2Bot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /

Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.

Sites with a similar AI policy

• who.int · 1 blocked
• linktr.ee · 2 blocked
• forter.com · 3 blocked
• medium.com · 5 blocked
• flickr.com · 7 blocked
• alibaba.com · 2 blocked
• weather.com · 2 blocked
• name.com · 1 blocked

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