Of 69,200 live Greek websites, 3,863 (5.58%) block an AI crawler — 42nd of 43 countries, one of the most defensive in the survey. Its attractions sites block at 11.4%, the tourism reflex at its strongest.
Analysis of 41,818,678 live, content-validated websites worldwide · snapshot 2026-07-13 · by Piperic
Greece runs one of the most cautious webs in this survey. Of 69,200 live Greek sites, 5.58% block an AI crawler — 42nd of 43 countries, more defensive than Italy (3.11%) and most of the continent, and well above the EU average (3.56%).
The Mediterranean tourism reflex is at its sharpest here: attractions block AI at 11.42%, more than double the national average and the leading sector, followed by fashion (8.65%). In a country whose economy leans heavily on tourism, its attraction and heritage sites are among the least visible to the AI assistants travellers now use to plan trips. The press blocks at a comparatively moderate 6.78%.
Greek blocking carries a visibility cost: 9.4% of GPTBot-blockers accidentally lost ChatGPT Search too, above the global 6.1%. With only 5.15% of sites consciously declaring a policy, Greece's caution is instinctive rather than strategic.
Share of sites blocking at least one AI crawler — lower = more open. Greece ranks #42 of 44 countries analysed.
Neighbours shown for context. Full ranking in the data download.
Every website falls into one of four groups, based on what it blocks and what it declares:
3,251 Greece websites block GPTBot to keep their content out of AI training. But 304 of them — 9.4% — ALSO block OAI-SearchBot, most likely by accident. Those sites have removed themselves from ChatGPT Search results entirely: protected from training, but invisible where their customers now search.
GPTBot (training) and OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT Search) are independent robots.txt tokens — blocking one does not block the other.
Share of Greece sites blocking each crawler in robots.txt.
Bytespider is ByteDance's (TikTok) crawler — it ignores robots.txt more often than the majors, yet it is among the most-blocked.
AI-blocking and llms.txt adoption across Greece's biggest website categories.
| Sector | Sites | Blocks AI | llms.txt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📰 News & media | 1,180 | 6.78% | 10.85% |
| business and finance | 11,628 | 4.06% | 4.36% |
| home and garden | 5,412 | 5.49% | 4.86% |
| real estate | 4,558 | 4.8% | 4.17% |
| travel | 4,185 | 5.42% | 7.36% |
| medical health | 4,024 | 4.92% | 6.39% |
| style and fashion | 4,010 | 8.65% | 11.95% |
| technology and computing | 3,952 | 5.97% | 6.3% |
| attractions | 3,213 | 11.42% | 2.89% |
| automotive | 2,992 | 5.25% | 4.65% |
| shopping | 2,447 | 6.7% | 6.95% |
| food and drink | 2,196 | 4.1% | 5.01% |
Greece news sites block AI 1.2× more often than the national average (6.78% vs 5.58%) — publishers are the most defensive segment of the web.
19,521 Greece online shops are open to AI crawlers (93.7% of 20,834). Their product content can already be read, compared and recommended by AI assistants — whether they know it or not.
Share of sites blocking at least one AI bot, by platform:
This is the baseline edition (2026-07-13). Piperic re-measures continuously; the next edition will show how fast Greece's web is closing — or opening.
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Sample: 69,200 live, content-validated websites (Greece, ccTLD-based assignment), out of 41,818,678 live domains analysed worldwide. “Live” = HTTP 200 and not parked. “Blocks AI” = the site's robots.txt disallows at least one of 14 known AI crawlers. llms.txt/ai.txt = the file exists at the site root. Snapshot: 2026-07-13 (frozen — numbers do not move with the live crawl). Full-web note: these figures cover the ENTIRE live web including the long tail; industry headlines like “25% of top sites block GPTBot” measure only large publishers — both are true, they measure different things. Country assignment via ccTLD under-counts .com/.org sites; treat US figures as indicative.
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