What changed in week 2026-W40
In week 2026-W40 AEO Watch recorded 1271 changes across 812 domains. This page reports counts only and never names a domain.
| Week | 2026-W40 |
|---|---|
| Recorded changes | 1271 |
| Domains that moved | 812 |
| Weeks published | 12 |
| Changes in the robots check | 1255 |
| Changes in the llms check | 12 |
| Changes in the signals check | 2 |
| Last verified |
This page reports how many observations moved, by check and by observation. It never names a domain that started or stopped allowing a crawler. A change is a fact about one site's own file, and publishing a named list of them would be a list of accusations; the counts are the useful part and the only part we publish.
| Observation | Domains that moved |
|---|---|
| robots.file | 813 |
| robots.sitemap-declared | 74 |
| robots.agents-summary | 53 |
| robots.agent:claudebot | 27 |
| robots.agent:bytespider | 24 |
| robots.agent:gptbot | 24 |
| robots.agent:applebot-extended | 23 |
| robots.agent:amazonbot | 22 |
| robots.agent:google-extended | 22 |
| robots.agent:meta-externalagent | 22 |
| robots.agent:ccbot | 19 |
| robots.agent:anthropic-ai | 17 |
| robots.agent:claude-user | 13 |
| robots.agent:perplexity-user | 12 |
| robots.agent:chatgpt-user | 11 |
| robots.agent:claude-searchbot | 10 |
| robots.agent:oai-searchbot | 10 |
| robots.agent:perplexitybot | 10 |
| robots.agent:amzn-user | 9 |
| llms.llms-full.txt | 7 |
| robots.agent:duckassistbot | 6 |
| llms.llms.txt | 5 |
| robots.agent:amzn-searchbot | 5 |
| robots.agent:applebot | 4 |
| robots.agent:bingbot | 2 |
| robots.agent:googlebot | 2 |
| signals.sitemap | 2 |
| timing.response-ms | 2 |
| robots.content-signal | 1 |
| robots.crawl-delay:amazonbot | 1 |
| robots.crawl-delay:anthropic-ai | 1 |
| robots.crawl-delay:applebot | 1 |
| robots.crawl-delay:applebot-extended | 1 |
| robots.crawl-delay:bingbot | 1 |
| robots.crawl-delay:bytespider | 1 |
| robots.crawl-delay:ccbot | 1 |
| robots.crawl-delay:chatgpt-user | 1 |
| robots.crawl-delay:claude-searchbot | 1 |
| robots.crawl-delay:claude-user | 1 |
| robots.crawl-delay:claudebot | 1 |
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| AEO Watch weekly changes, week 2026-W40 - https://bikoosh.com/aeo/changes | |
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| AEO Watch weekly changes, week 2026-W40. Bikoosh. Retrieved 2026-10-23, from https://bikoosh.com/aeo/changes |