Does strava.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite strava.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

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

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; strava.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; strava.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; strava.com does not.
• Among 173 sites of similar popularity, 25% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /stream/
Disallow: /activities/*/analysis
Disallow: /activities/*/embed/
Disallow: /activities/*/est-power-*
Disallow: /activities/*/flags/new
Disallow: /activities/*/heartrate
Disallow: /activities/*/laps
Disallow: /activities/*/matched*
Disallow: /activities/*/overview
Disallow: /activities/*/pace-*
Disallow: /activities/*/potential-segment*
Disallow: /activities/*/power-*
Disallow: /activities/*/route
Disallow: /activities/*/segments
Disallow: /activities/*/shareable_images/
Disallow: /activities/*/split
Disallow: /activities/*/truncate
Disallow: /activities/*/zone-distribution
Disallow: /athletes/*/follows
Disallow: /athletes/*/heatmaps
Disallow: /athletes/*/segments/*
Disallow: /athletes/*/training/log
Disallow: /athletes/*/trophy-case
Disallow: /athletes/*/invite/
Disallow: /athletes/search
Disallow: /clubs/*/discussion
Disallow: /clubs/*/leaderboard
Disallow: /clubs/*/members
Disallow: /clubs/*/recent_activity
Disallow: /routes/new
Disallow: /routes/*cue_sheet
Disallow: /routes/*/export
Disallow: /segments/*/compare
Disallow: /athlete/*
Disallow: /beacon/*
Disallow: /dashboard*
Disallow: /onboarding*
Disallow: /upload/*

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

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