Purpose not established
This token is tracked because sites still act on it, not because its purpose is known with confidence.
Purpose: Uncertain. Purpose not established. The token is named and blocked widely enough to track, but we cannot say with confidence what it is for — so the index counts it without claiming to know.
Named in many robots.txt files and blocked by 84 panel sites, but observed traffic appears minimal, so it may be superseded by the current tokens. Retained because sites clearly still act on it.
8.14%
of the panel names this token in robots.txt and disallows it, for the week of 2026-10-05.
How sites treat this token
| Stance | Domains | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| FullBlock | 74 | Every path is disallowed for this token. |
| PartialBlock | 7 | Some paths are disallowed for this token; others are not. |
| Allowed | 9 | The token is named and explicitly allowed. |
| Unmentioned | 905 | The file never names this token. This is not consent — the site may still close it off with a blanket rule for every crawler. |
Claude-Web's three-year history
A site in the historical panel first named and disallowed this token in 2023-09; its most recent reading is 9.02%.
Anthropic's other tokens
Publishes separate tokens for training, search and user-initiated fetches, mirroring OpenAI's split. Two older tokens are still widely named in robots.txt files.
| Token | Purpose | Published rate |
|---|---|---|
| Claude-SearchBot | Search | 8.54% |
| Claude-User | User-initiated | 8.04% |
| ClaudeBot | Training | 15.18% |
| anthropic-ai | Training | 9.35% |
Sites that treat these tokens differently
164 domains in the panel treat Anthropic's tokens differently from one another. The first 25 are shown below.
| Domain | Claude-SearchBot | Claude-User | Claude-Web | ClaudeBot | anthropic-ai |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| abc.net.au | Unmentioned | Unmentioned | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock |
| academia.edu | PartialBlock | PartialBlock | Unmentioned | Unmentioned | Unmentioned |
| ad.nl | Unmentioned | Unmentioned | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock |
| aftonbladet.se | FullBlock | Unmentioned | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock |
| airbnb.com | Unmentioned | Unmentioned | Unmentioned | FullBlock | PartialBlock |
| aljazeera.com | Unmentioned | Unmentioned | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock |
| amap.com | Unmentioned | Unmentioned | PartialBlock | Unmentioned | PartialBlock |
| amazon.ca | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned |
| amazon.co.jp | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned |
| amazon.co.uk | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned |
| amazon.co.za | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned |
| amazon.com | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned |
| amazon.com.au | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned |
| amazon.com.br | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned |
| amazon.com.mx | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned |
| amazon.de | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned |
| amazon.es | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned |
| amazon.fr | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned |
| amazon.in | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned |
| amazon.it | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned |
| amazonvideo.com | Unmentioned | FullBlock | Unmentioned | Unmentioned | Unmentioned |
| amplitude.com | Unmentioned | Unmentioned | Unmentioned | PartialBlock | PartialBlock |
| android.com | PartialBlock | Unmentioned | Unmentioned | PartialBlock | PartialBlock |
| aol.com | Unmentioned | Unmentioned | FullBlock | FullBlock | FullBlock |
| as.com | FullBlock | FullBlock | Unmentioned | FullBlock | Unmentioned |