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llms.txt: Do AI Bots Actually Read It? 13 Days of Logs
quantslant@ai:~$ cat news_1

› The site has an llms.txt file: 230 lines, 170 links to key pages, generated automatically by WordPress.
quantslant@ai:~$ cat news_2

› I reviewed 13 days of server logs, from October 24 to November 5, 2026: 1,832,096 requests in total.
quantslant@ai:~$ cat news_3

› During that period, bots identifying themselves as OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity made more than 61,000 requests.
quantslant@ai:~$ cat news_4

› How many times did any of them fetch llms.txt?
quantslant@ai:~$ open --full
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llms.txt: Do AI Bots Actually Read It? 13 Days of Logs

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