YouBot: share of top websites blocking it

On 27 October 2026, 9.5% of the readable top 10k websites fully blocked YouBot in robots.txt (bounds 7.6% to 27.8% over all 8,219 websites, 1,657 of them unreadable); 3.7% blocked it partly and 6.6% named it.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

Operator
You
What it is
Scrapes data for search engine and LLMs.
Description
Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs.
robots.txt token
User-agent: YouBot
Listed since
2026-10-26 (in this ledger's registry)

Fully blocks

9.5%

624 sites; bounds 7.6% to 27.8%

Partly blocks

3.7%

245 sites

Name it explicitly

6.6%

432 sites; unreadable: 3,438

Over time

Share of panel sites blocking YouBot4 lines, 2016-09-05 to 2026-10-27; values between 2.58 and 9.51 %; latest 9.51 %.2.024.036.048.0510.06Sep 2016Mar 2019Oct 2021Apr 2024Oct 2026blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2016-09-05 UTC: 3.79 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2016-10-03 UTC: 2.58 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2017-01-23 UTC: 3.96 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2017-04-24 UTC: 3.19 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2017-09-25 UTC: 3.66 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2018-09-24 UTC: 3.97 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2019-09-23 UTC: 2.82 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2020-09-28 UTC: 2.68 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2021-09-27 UTC: 2.91 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2022-10-03 UTC: 2.64 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2023-10-02 UTC: 3.00 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2024-09-16 UTC: 3.87 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2025-09-15 UTC: 4.88 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2026-09-21 UTC: 6.46 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2016-09-05 UTC: 4.78 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2016-10-03 UTC: 4.97 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2017-01-23 UTC: 4.78 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2017-04-24 UTC: 4.83 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2017-09-25 UTC: 4.63 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2018-09-24 UTC: 4.30 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2019-09-23 UTC: 4.38 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2020-09-28 UTC: 4.28 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2021-09-27 UTC: 4.24 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2022-10-03 UTC: 4.32 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2023-10-02 UTC: 4.42 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2024-09-16 UTC: 4.37 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2025-09-15 UTC: 4.48 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2026-09-21 UTC: 4.28 %blocks, daily observation: 2026-10-26 UTC: 9.48 %blocks, daily observation: 2026-10-27 UTC: 9.51 %partly blocks, daily observation: 2026-10-26 UTC: 3.76 %partly blocks, daily observation: 2026-10-27 UTC: 3.73 %

"Partly blocks" counts every robots.txt whose rules for YouBot disallow some paths, including generic rules for all crawlers (for example /search); it is not a measure of targeted AI policy. Shares are of the readable websites (W − U: 8,219 websites, 1,657 unreadable); the bounds assume none / all of the unreadable sites block. Solid: daily first-party observations (top 10k of the Tranco list W3ZV9, one fixed cohort). Dashed: reconstructed from Common Crawl (top 10k), a separate series.

Reconstructed values per crawl
CrawlDateBlocksSites read
CC-MAIN-2016-362016-09-053.8%5,355
CC-MAIN-2016-402016-10-032.6%5,235
CC-MAIN-2017-042017-01-234.0%5,458
CC-MAIN-2017-172017-04-243.2%5,449
CC-MAIN-2017-392017-09-253.7%5,355
CC-MAIN-2018-392018-09-244.0%5,768
CC-MAIN-2019-392019-09-232.8%5,773
CC-MAIN-2020-402020-09-282.7%5,860
CC-MAIN-2021-392021-09-272.9%5,914
CC-MAIN-2022-402022-10-032.6%5,692
CC-MAIN-2023-402023-10-023.0%5,930
CC-MAIN-2024-382024-09-163.9%6,065
CC-MAIN-2025-382025-09-154.9%6,045
CC-MAIN-2026-392026-09-216.5%5,868

Recent blockers

Sites that started fully blocking YouBot since 2026-07-29, highest-ranked first.

DateSiteWhat changed
elmundo.esnow blocks YouBot (was allow)

Recent unblockers

DateSiteWhat changed
bestjavporn.comnow allows YouBot (was block)

Sites blocking YouBot now

facebook.com (*) · fbcdn.net (*) · instagram.com (*) · twitter.com (*) · googlevideo.com (*) · amazon.com · netflix.com (*) · x.com (*) · pinterest.com (*) · yahoo.com · baidu.com (*) · amazonvideo.com · msn.com · reddit.com (*) · skybridge.click (*) · registrar-servers.com (*) · snapchat.com · tumblr.com · nytimes.com · flickr.com (*) · theguardian.com · cnn.com · bbc.com · bbc.co.uk · t.co (*) · weather.com · linktr.ee (*) · imdb.com (*) · launchpad.net · reuters.com (*) · nature.com · demdex.net (*) · weibo.com (*) · amazon.co.uk · naver.com (*) · trustpilot.com · netflix.net (*) · nflxvideo.net (*) · bloomberg.com · wsj.com (*) · amazon.de · cookiedatabase.org (*) · aol.com · gcdn.co (*) · kwai.net (*) · amazon.co.jp · statista.com · edgecdn.ru (*) · uol.com.br · wired.com · tripadvisor.com · threads.com (*) · netcraze.io (*) · usatoday.com · dailymail.com · amazon.fr · amazon.ca · sharethrough.com · primevideo.com · amazon.in

(*) blocked through the * group, not by name. Full list in current.csv.

Cite this

InfraRabbit AI Crawl Ledger, "Share of top websites blocking YouBot", https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/bot/YouBot, retrieved 2026-10-27. CC BY 4.0.