Does posthog.com block AI crawlers?
Open to AI crawlers
posthog.com doesn't block any of the major AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt.
Checked from posthog.com/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 0 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 0
- llms.txt
- Published
- Popularity
- Tranco top 5,000 (#2,212)
Can AI assistants cite posthog.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
posthog.com doesn't opt out of AI model training through robots.txt. 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
| Crawler | Used for | Status on posthog.com |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Allowed |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Allowed |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Allowed |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Allowed |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Allowed |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Allowed |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Allowed |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Allowed |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Allowed |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Allowed |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Allowed |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Allowed |
How posthog.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; posthog.com does not.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; posthog.com does not.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; posthog.com does not.
- Among 174 sites of similar popularity, 22% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
No rules in posthog.com's robots.txt apply to all crawlers or to any AI crawler by name, so they're allowed by default.
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does posthog.com block GPTBot?
No. As of Oct 2, 2026, posthog.com's robots.txt doesn't block GPTBot.
Can ChatGPT search show results from posthog.com?
Its robots.txt doesn't block OAI-SearchBot or ChatGPT-User, so ChatGPT's search crawlers may read it. Whether pages are actually shown depends on ChatGPT.
Does posthog.com have an llms.txt file?
Yes — posthog.com/llms.txt was found when we checked.
Data: posthog.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.