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AI crawlers ignored custom LLM context files, logs show

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A personal website owner analyzed 15 days of nginx logs to see if any AI crawlers accessed their /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt files, which summarize the site for language models. Despite over 46,000 requests from bots with known crawler tokens like GPTBot and ClaudeBot, none accessed these specific files. Instead, all 67 requests for the context files came from non-crawler clients, primarily command-line HTTP clients like curl. AI

IMPACT Suggests AI crawlers may not be accessing custom LLM-specific data files as intended by site owners.

RANK_REASON Blog post analyzing web server logs for AI crawler behavior.

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AI crawlers ignored custom LLM context files, logs show

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Evgenii Arsentev ·

    Nobody with a crawler token asked for my llms.txt - what I saw in 15 days of nginx logs

    <p>I run a digital health startup as CEO (and a personal site, arsentev.ai, about practical AI). I put /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt on my site, and I wanted to see who actually reads them.</p> <p>The two files are a plain-text summary of the site for language models. They were fi…

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