robotstxt.org
robots.txt
Who runs robots.txt, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web standards reference alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Sitemaps
Measured from robots.txt’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit robots.txt01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs robots.txt
robots.txt robotstxt.org
Wikidata: standard used to advise web crawlers and scrapers not to index a web page or site
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
02 · Privacy
What robots.txt tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on robots.txt’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to robots.txt
None of the 60 sites closest to robots.txt match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what robots.txt adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 44 ms
Built with
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.68 (Debian)
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=FuTkdKut4zpT5f61O29qfjnWKg3u5iA292tOglYwZuo
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Google Workspace · not on robotstxt.org 9/20
- nginx · not on robotstxt.org 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on robotstxt.org 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on robotstxt.org 7/20
- jQuery · not on robotstxt.org 4/20
- Google AdSense · not on robotstxt.org 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on robotstxt.org 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on robotstxt.org 3/20
- SendGrid · not on robotstxt.org 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on robotstxt.org 3/20
- Fastmail · not on robotstxt.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on robotstxt.org 2/20
- Fastly · not on robotstxt.org 2/20
- Google Fonts · not on robotstxt.org 2/20
- OneTrust · not on robotstxt.org 2/20