Of 38,898 live Taiwanese websites, 1,684 (4.33%) block an AI crawler — 29th of 43 countries. Its attractions sites block most, but Taiwan almost never loses ChatGPT Search by accident.
Analysis of 41,818,678 live, content-validated websites worldwide · snapshot 2026-07-13 · by Piperic
Taiwan runs a mid-table web on openness: 4.33% of its 38,898 live sites block an AI crawler — 29th of 43 countries — more cautious than Japan (1.0%) but far from the most defensive. Attractions lead the sectoral table (7.27%), followed by shopping (5.35%) — a tourism-and-commerce pattern.
Taiwan's strength is precision. Only 3.4% of Taiwanese GPTBot-blockers accidentally shut out ChatGPT Search — among the lowest accidental-exclusion rates in the whole report, roughly half the global norm. In one of the world's most tech-literate societies, blocking is deliberate and clean.
The web is largely silent — 92.1% neither block nor declare — with modest conscious opt-in (3.67%). Taiwan's profile: moderately cautious, technically sharp, and quietly undecided.
Share of sites blocking at least one AI crawler — lower = more open. Taiwan ranks #29 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:
1,464 Taiwan websites block GPTBot to keep their content out of AI training. But 50 of them — 3.4% — 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 Taiwan 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 Taiwan's biggest website categories.
| Sector | Sites | Blocks AI | llms.txt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📰 News & media | 45 | 13.33% | 15.56% |
| business and finance | 9,617 | 3.61% | 3.12% |
| technology and computing | 4,603 | 4.8% | 3.71% |
| home and garden | 2,894 | 5.15% | 3.7% |
| style and fashion | 2,217 | 3.61% | 7.98% |
| shopping | 2,204 | 5.35% | 4.9% |
| automotive | 1,440 | 4.17% | 3.61% |
| medical health | 1,403 | 4.28% | 3.42% |
| food and drink | 1,331 | 4.36% | 4.43% |
| travel | 1,318 | 4.02% | 3.11% |
| healthy living | 1,057 | 4.45% | 5.3% |
| attractions | 990 | 7.27% | 4.04% |
Taiwan news sites block AI 3.1× more often than the national average (13.33% vs 4.33%) — publishers are the most defensive segment of the web.
5,422 Taiwan online shops are open to AI crawlers (95.1% of 5,702). 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 Taiwan's web is closing — or opening.
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Sample: 38,898 live, content-validated websites (Taiwan, 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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