Of 27,537 live Lithuanian websites, 1,078 (3.91%) block an AI crawler — 19th of 43 countries. Its wider web is open and precise, but its newsrooms block AI at 17.5%.
Analysis of 41,818,678 live, content-validated websites worldwide · snapshot 2026-07-13 · by Piperic
Lithuania runs a moderately open web: 3.91% of its 27,537 live sites block an AI crawler, 19th of 43 countries — more open than Poland (4.45%) next door, though more cautious than Baltic neighbour Estonia (2.66%).
Lithuanian newsrooms follow the European pattern: 17.5% of news sites block AI — more than four times the national average and among the more defensive presses in the region. Attractions (7.34%) and fashion (5.25%) lead the non-press sectors. The overwhelming majority of the web, however, stays silent: 90% neither block nor declare.
Where Lithuania does block, it is exceptionally precise: just 3.3% of GPTBot-blockers accidentally lost ChatGPT Search — one of the lowest rates in the entire report, half the global norm. Lithuanian administrators clearly separate training bots from search bots.
Share of sites blocking at least one AI crawler — lower = more open. Lithuania ranks #19 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:
979 Lithuania websites block GPTBot to keep their content out of AI training. But 32 of them — 3.3% — 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 Lithuania 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 Lithuania's biggest website categories.
| Sector | Sites | Blocks AI | llms.txt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📰 News & media | 143 | 17.48% | 10.49% |
| business and finance | 5,695 | 3.51% | 4.88% |
| technology and computing | 3,056 | 2.72% | 3.17% |
| home and garden | 2,910 | 3.99% | 7.29% |
| automotive | 1,687 | 3.91% | 5.1% |
| style and fashion | 1,372 | 5.25% | 19.61% |
| shopping | 1,216 | 4.44% | 10.86% |
| medical health | 1,017 | 2.65% | 7.28% |
| real estate | 937 | 4.27% | 4.06% |
| hobbies and interests | 893 | 4.93% | 6.05% |
| sports | 781 | 4.87% | 6.02% |
| personal finance | 775 | 2.58% | 5.81% |
Lithuania news sites block AI 4.5× more often than the national average (17.48% vs 3.91%) — publishers are the most defensive segment of the web.
7,344 Lithuania online shops are open to AI crawlers (96.1% of 7,639). 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 Lithuania's web is closing — or opening.
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Sample: 27,537 live, content-validated websites (Lithuania, 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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