Some Sites Use llms.txt Like robots.txt, Common Crawl Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Common Crawl analyzed 584,107 llms.txt files and found most came from templates, many had no links, and some carried crawler rules the format can't enforce. Common Crawl looked at over 500,000 llms.txt files and discovered that 68% originated from a plugin or template, while 22% had no links at all [1].

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1. searchenginejournal.com · Some Sites Use llms.txt Like robots.txt, Common Crawl Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Sep 8, 2026

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