Daily snapshot 2026-11-01
2026-11-01 UTC
The numbers come from one website. They describe what these crawlers did here, not across the web.
Period: 2026-11-01T00:00:00Z to 2026-11-02T00:00:00Z (00:00Z to 24:00Z). Generated 2026-11-02T03:18:27.783Z. Schema version 1. Licence CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Benes, Peter. Rattlesnakes By Mail: A Field Guide to the Crawlers of the Web. benesthemenace.com. Method: https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/method
Facts
- F-261101-01 Claude-User has made no requests since 2026-09-20, 42 days. Source
- F-261101-02 ChatGPT-User fetched 1 page on 2026-11-01 in response to people's requests; the most fetched was /. Source
- F-261101-03 Bingbot first fetched the 2026-10-31 snapshot 4 h 53 min after it was published. Source
- F-261101-04 An MCP client named creora-verified-execution first called list_changes on 2026-11-01. Source
- F-261101-05 Every request on 2026-11-01 from ClaudeBot, Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot and GPTBot was verified against the operator's published method. Source
This selection has expired; it is listed in snapshot.json.
Crawlers
| Crawler | Requests | Verified share | Distinct paths | 28-day median | Sweep day | First path | robots.txt | sitemap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ClaudeBot | 57 | 100% | 5 | 48 | no | /favicon.ico | 13 | 43 |
| Googlebot | 40 | 100% | 22 | 18 | no | /robots.txt | 15 | 0 |
| Bingbot | 25 | 100% | 23 | 15 | no | /fields/follows_noarchive | 1 | 3 |
| OAI-SearchBot | 7 | 100% | 4 | 6 | no | /robots.txt | 4 | 0 |
| GPTBot | 3 | 100% | 3 | 3 | no | /sitemap-index.xml | 0 | 3 |
| Reflectionbot | 2 | 100% | 2 | 0 | no | /robots.txt | 1 | 0 |
| Applebot | 1 | 100% | 1 | 0 | no | /mcp | 0 | 0 |
| ChatGPT-User | 1 | 100% | 1 | 0 | no | / | 0 | 0 |
MCP calls
| Client | Tool | Calls |
|---|---|---|
| BrickBlueBot | get_snapshot | 1 |
| BrickBlueBot | identify_user_agent | 1 |
| BrickBlueBot | list_changes | 1 |
| BrickBlueBot | lookup_crawler | 1 |
| agent-index-prober | list_changes | 1 |
| creora-verified-execution | list_changes | 1 |
| rokmcp-probe | list_changes | 1 |
| verifymcp-probe | __verifymcp_auth_probe_d349f5174e91a608__ | 1 |
Snapshot pickup
For each of the previous seven snapshots, the first fetch by each verified crawler, in minutes after publication, and the c tag on that fetch.
| Snapshot | Crawler | Minutes after publication | Tag |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | Bingbot | 293 | none |
| 2026-10-30 | Bingbot | 232 | none |
| 2026-10-30 | Googlebot | 407 | none |
| 2026-10-30 | GoogleOther | 407 | p |
| 2026-10-29 | Bingbot | 236 | none |
| 2026-10-29 | Googlebot | 791 | none |
| 2026-10-28 | Bingbot | 239 | none |
| 2026-10-28 | OAI-SearchBot | 716 | none |
| 2026-10-28 | GPTBot | 716 | h |
| 2026-10-28 | ClaudeBot | 1,216 | h |
| 2026-10-28 | Googlebot | 2,381 | none |
| 2026-10-27 | Bingbot | 234 | none |
| 2026-10-27 | Googlebot | 526 | none |
| 2026-10-27 | GoogleOther | 526 | h |
| 2026-10-27 | ClaudeBot | 528 | h |
| 2026-10-27 | OAI-SearchBot | 2,156 | none |
| 2026-10-27 | GPTBot | 2,156 | p |
| 2026-10-26 | Bingbot | 234 | none |
| 2026-10-26 | Googlebot | 842 | none |
| 2026-10-26 | GoogleOther | 1,544 | none |
| 2026-10-26 | ClaudeBot | 2,031 | none |
| 2026-10-26 | OAI-SearchBot | 3,595 | none |
| 2026-10-26 | GPTBot | 3,595 | p |
| 2026-10-25 | Bingbot | 239 | none |
| 2026-10-25 | Googlebot | 631 | none |
| 2026-10-25 | ClaudeBot | 3,532 | none |
| 2026-10-25 | OAI-SearchBot | 5,035 | none |
| 2026-10-25 | GPTBot | 5,035 | p |
Fetches made for people
Verified fetches by AI products in response to a person's request, by page.
| Product | Page | Requests | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT-User | / | 1 | 1 |
Open questions
- Can robots.txt cleanly separate "allow this page for search or citation" from "block it for training," and does that distinction hold across every major AI platform? (id 26, asked 5 times)
- How can AI citation performance be measured accurately, given there is no equivalent of a Search Console report for citations? (id 34, asked 5 times)
- Was a specific document used in a model's training, fine-tuning, or evaluation? (id 38, asked 4 times)
- Why wasn't a specific page cited by an AI answer instead of a competitor's page? (id 7, asked 3 times)
- How much do backlinks, brand mentions, structured data, reviews, forum discussions, publisher reputation, and content freshness each matter to being cited? (id 11, asked 3 times)
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