Does statista.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite statista.com?

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

statista.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, 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 statista.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; statista.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; statista.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; statista.com is one of them.
• Among 211 sites of similar popularity, 28% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /ads/
Disallow: /xml/
Disallow: /berichte/
Disallow: /blog/
Disallow: /data/
Disallow: /download/
Disallow: /hinweis/datenleck/
Disallow: /important/dataleak/
Disallow: /important/fuite-donnees/
Disallow: /importante/fuga-de-datos/
Disallow: /favorit-hinzufuegen/
Disallow: /add-favorite/
Disallow: /ajouter-favoris/
Disallow: /anadir-busqueda/
Disallow: /favorit-loeschen/
Disallow: /remove-favorite/
Disallow: /supprimer-favoris/
Disallow: /eliminar-busqueda/
Disallow: /eliminar-favoritos/
Disallow: /statistik/report-content/
Disallow: /statistics/report-content/
Disallow: /statistiques/report-content/
Disallow: /estadisticas/report-content/
Disallow: /perspectiva/
Disallow: /perspective/
Disallow: /global-consumer-survey/tool/
Disallow: /statistics/popular/p/
Disallow: /statistik/top/p/
Disallow: /statistiques/populaires/p/
Disallow: /estadisticas/populares/p/
Disallow: /statistics/recommendations/?p=
Disallow: /estadisticas/recomendaciones/?p=
Disallow: /statistiques/recommandees/?p=
Disallow: /statistik/empfehlungen/?p=
Disallow: /statistics/forecast/p/
Disallow: /estadisticas/prevision/p/
Disallow: /statistiques/prevision/p/
Disallow: /statistik/prognose/p/
Disallow: /statistics/updated/?p=
Disallow: /estadisticas/actualizadas/?p=

User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Operator
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Aranet-SearchBot
User-agent: archive.org_bot
User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Cincraw
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: ia_archiver
User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: Kangaroo LLM
User-agent: LinerBot
User-agent: Magpie-crawler
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Peer39_crawler
User-agent: TerraCotta
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /$
Allow: /statistik/info$
Allow: /kontakt/
Allow: /contact/
Allow: /contacto/
Allow: /accounts/
Allow: /solutions/
Allow: /getting-started/
Allow: /infografik/
Allow: /chartoftheday/
Allow: /chart/
Allow: /graphique-du-jour/
Allow: /infographie/
Allow: /grafico-del-dia/
Allow: /grafico/
Allow: /karriere/
Allow: /working-at-statista/
Allow: /business/
Allow: /impressum/
Allow: /imprint/
Allow: /lexikonListe/
Allow: /lexikon/
Allow: /statistics-glossary/
Allow: /presse/
Allow: /press/
Allow: /prensa/
Allow: /research-ai/$
Allow: /webinar$
Allow: /webinar/
Allow: /site/

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

Sites with a similar AI policy

• cnbc.com · 11 blocked
• sohu.com · 11 blocked
• quora.com · 11 blocked
• claude.ai · 4 blocked
• ft.com · 7 blocked
• wired.com · 9 blocked
• unsplash.com · 3 blocked
• espn.com · 5 blocked

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