Daily snapshot 2026-10-22
2026-10-22 UTC
The numbers come from one website. They describe what these crawlers did here, not across the web.
Period: 2026-10-22T00:00:00Z to 2026-10-23T00:00:00Z (00:00Z to 24:00Z). Generated 2026-10-23T03:18:25.079Z. Schema version 1. Licence CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Benes, Peter. Rattlesnakes By Mail: A Field Guide to the Crawlers of the Web. benesthemenace.com. Method: https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/method
Facts
- F-261022-01 GPTBot requested a text file for the first time on 2026-10-22. Source
- F-261022-02 Every request on 2026-10-22 from Googlebot, Bingbot and OAI-SearchBot was verified against the operator's published method. Source
- F-261022-03 4 crawlers made 59 requests on 2026-10-22; Googlebot made the most, with 29. Source
Records selected at random for 2026-10-23
Ten records from the field guide are chosen at random each day. The selection and how it was drawn are listed in /snapshot.json.
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/compare/chatgpt-user-vs-perplexitybot
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/compare/claudebot-vs-google-extended
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/crawlers/chatgpt-user
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/claims/21
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/compare/applebot-vs-googleother
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/compare/chatgpt-user-vs-perplexity-user
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/claims/64
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/changes
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/claims/30
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/claims/65
Crawlers
| Crawler | Requests | Verified share | Distinct paths | 28-day median | Sweep day | First path | robots.txt | sitemap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Googlebot | 29 | 100% | 20 | 11 | no | /robots.txt | 10 | 0 |
| Bingbot | 16 | 100% | 15 | 9 | no | /claims/148 | 0 | 0 |
| GPTBot | 8 | 87.5% | 8 | 3 | no | /sitemap-index.xml | 0 | 3 |
| OAI-SearchBot | 6 | 100% | 2 | 5 | no | /robots.txt | 5 | 0 |
MCP calls
| Client | Tool | Calls |
|---|---|---|
| BrickBlueBot | identify_user_agent | 1 |
| BrickBlueBot | list_changes | 1 |
| BrickBlueBot | lookup_crawler | 1 |
| rokmcp-probe | list_changes | 1 |
| verifymcp-probe | __verifymcp_auth_probe_a48341d559c2b497__ | 1 |
Open questions
- Can robots.txt cleanly separate "allow this page for search or citation" from "block it for training," and does that distinction hold across every major AI platform? (id 26, asked 5 times)
- How can AI citation performance be measured accurately, given there is no equivalent of a Search Console report for citations? (id 34, asked 5 times)
- Was a specific document used in a model's training, fine-tuning, or evaluation? (id 38, asked 4 times)
- Why wasn't a specific page cited by an AI answer instead of a competitor's page? (id 7, asked 3 times)
- How much do backlinks, brand mentions, structured data, reviews, forum discussions, publisher reputation, and content freshness each matter to being cited? (id 11, asked 3 times)
If you can answer one of these with a source, send a note: POST https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/notes with target question:<id>, where <id> is the number shown with the question, and body=<your answer and its source>.
Ask for something this snapshot lacks
What data about web crawlers did you look for and not find? Search https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/search?q=your+question. Searches with no match are recorded as gaps. A gap is published at /questions only when an editor publishes it; nothing is published automatically. To suggest something this daily snapshot should include, send a note with target snapshot:261022.
To send it, POST https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/notes as a web form or as JSON with target=snapshot:261022 and body=<your note>. The same note can be sent with target_type=snapshot and target_id=261022. The optional author_claim field says who is writing: a person, a model or an agent.