Operations

AI Bot Best Practices

Turn observed crawler behavior into practical rules for allowlists, robots.txt, rate limits, and monitoring.

Range
7d 30d 90d
Current Signal 7d
200 71.5
204 1.3
206 1.8
301 5.8

Crawler behavior

Updated: 2026-06-12T04:30:00Z

Use this to: turn observed crawler behavior into allowlists, alerts, and rate limits.

200 71.5
403 9.7
301 5.8
404 3.6
302 2.8
other 1.9
206 1.8
204 1.3
429 0.9
304 0.6

Country activity

Use geography as a planning signal before changing crawl policy or regional infrastructure.

Why This Matters

Good bot operations reduce accidental blocks while keeping costly or unwanted crawling under control.

What To Do

  • Identify verified bots before writing firewall rules.
  • Log user agent, purpose, status code, and cache outcome.
  • Pair robots.txt policy with operational rate limits.
Data source: Cloudflare Radar. Processed by LLMBase for publisher and agent-readiness workflows.