Of 139,427 live Slovak websites, 4,988 (3.58%) block an AI crawler — 16th of 43 countries, more open than most of Eastern Europe. But 92% have made no AI choice at all.
Analysis of 41,818,678 live, content-validated websites worldwide · snapshot 2026-07-13 · by Piperic
Slovakia sits on the open side of Eastern Europe. Of 139,427 live Slovak sites, 3.58% block an AI crawler — 16th of 43 countries, more open than Poland (4.45%), Hungary (4.32%) and Ukraine (4.89%), and just behind neighbour Czechia (2.89%).
But like the rest of the region, Slovakia is open mostly by inertia: 92% of sites neither block AI nor declare a policy, and conscious opt-in is just 4.54%. The travel sector blocks the most (10.78%), followed by attractions (6.3%) — the tourism reflex again — while the press is close to the national norm at 8.79%, unusually relaxed for the region.
Slovak blocking is fairly precise: 8.7% of GPTBot-blockers accidentally lost ChatGPT Search, a little above the global rate. Slovakia's profile is a familiar Central European one — open surface, silent majority, tourism-defensive core.
Share of sites blocking at least one AI crawler — lower = more open. Slovakia ranks #16 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:
4,385 Slovakia websites block GPTBot to keep their content out of AI training. But 383 of them — 8.7% — 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 Slovakia 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 Slovakia's biggest website categories.
| Sector | Sites | Blocks AI | llms.txt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📰 News & media | 660 | 8.79% | 6.21% |
| business and finance | 25,637 | 2.83% | 4.05% |
| home and garden | 15,486 | 3.07% | 5.08% |
| technology and computing | 9,345 | 3.66% | 5.09% |
| automotive | 7,302 | 3.34% | 4.27% |
| real estate | 6,835 | 2.41% | 4.48% |
| style and fashion | 6,365 | 3.57% | 7.65% |
| attractions | 6,049 | 6.3% | 2.81% |
| healthy living | 5,518 | 3.79% | 5.78% |
| medical health | 5,192 | 3.62% | 4.37% |
| sports | 5,074 | 3.96% | 4.16% |
| personal finance | 4,744 | 2.93% | 4.72% |
Slovakia news sites block AI 2.5× more often than the national average (8.79% vs 3.58%) — publishers are the most defensive segment of the web.
28,205 Slovakia online shops are open to AI crawlers (98.3% of 28,681). 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 Slovakia's web is closing — or opening.
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Sample: 139,427 live, content-validated websites (Slovakia, 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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Every number on this page is reproducible from the public dataset above.