Perplexity · AI crawler
216,714 websites block PerplexityBot
That’s 0.447% of the 48,534,257 live websites we index — the #11 most-blocked AI crawler.
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🛰️ Observed crawling piperic.com ✓ verified
196 requests · last seen 23m ago · 12 IP(s)
Fetched: HTML (128) · other (67) · robots.txt (1)
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