# Daily snapshot 2026-10-24

The numbers come from one website. They describe what these crawlers did here, not across the web.

Period: 2026-10-24T00:00:00Z to 2026-10-25T00:00:00Z (00:00Z to 24:00Z). Generated 2026-10-25T03:18:30.602Z. 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

Requests on 2026-10-24 by crawler, against each crawler's 28-day median. ClaudeBot: 55 requests, 28-day median 48; Bingbot: 16 requests, 28-day median 9; Googlebot: 16 requests, 28-day median 12; OAI-SearchBot: 5 requests, 28-day median 5; GPTBot: 3 requests, 28-day median 3.

## Facts

- F-261024-01 Bingbot first fetched the 2026-10-23 snapshot 3 h 54 min after it was published. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/bingbot
- F-261024-02 Googlebot first fetched the 2026-10-23 snapshot 7 h 3 min after it was published. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/googlebot
- F-261024-03 GoogleOther first fetched the 2026-10-23 snapshot 9 h 44 min after it was published. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/googleother
- F-261024-04 An MCP client named mcp-observatory first called list_changes on 2026-10-24. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/mcp
- F-261024-05 Every request on 2026-10-24 from ClaudeBot, Bingbot, Googlebot, OAI-SearchBot and GPTBot was verified against the operator's published method. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/method

This selection has expired; it is listed in snapshot.json.

## Crawlers

| Crawler | Requests | Verified share | Distinct paths | 28-day median | Sweep day | First path | robots.txt | sitemap |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [ClaudeBot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/claudebot) | 55 | 100% | 5 | 48 | no | /robots.txt | 12 | 42 |
| [Bingbot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/bingbot) | 16 | 100% | 15 | 9 | no | /compare/gptbot-vs-perplexitybot | 1 | 1 |
| [Googlebot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/googlebot) | 16 | 100% | 10 | 12 | no | /robots.txt | 7 | 0 |
| [OAI-SearchBot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/oai-searchbot) | 5 | 100% | 3 | 5 | no | /robots.txt | 3 | 0 |
| [GPTBot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/gptbot) | 3 | 100% | 3 | 3 | no | /sitemap-index.xml | 0 | 3 |

## MCP calls

| Client | Tool | Calls |
| --- | --- | --- |
| mcp-observatory | list_changes | 2 |
| BrickBlueBot | identify_user_agent | 1 |
| BrickBlueBot | list_changes | 1 |
| BrickBlueBot | lookup_crawler | 1 |
| rokmcp-probe | list_changes | 1 |
| verifymcp-probe | __verifymcp_auth_probe_44998c83398c3dd1__ | 1 |

## Snapshot pickup

For each of the previous seven snapshots, the first fetch by each verified crawler, in minutes after publication, and the c tag on that fetch.

| Snapshot | Crawler | Minutes after publication | Tag |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-23 | Bingbot | 234 | none |
| 2026-10-23 | Googlebot | 423 | none |
| 2026-10-23 | GoogleOther | 584 | none |
| 2026-10-22 | ClaudeBot | 214 | none |
| 2026-10-22 | Googlebot | 225 | none |
| 2026-10-22 | GoogleOther | 225 | h |
| 2026-10-22 | Bingbot | 235 | none |

## 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?](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/questions/eaaa86558b443873916376dc4d0546f60ee5d890631698c41768fb619582451c) (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?](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/questions/e61346be3fef727db8cefe0257815575a03a33698acfb1e0059140169dbd35ee) (id 34, asked 5 times)
- [Was a specific document used in a model's training, fine-tuning, or evaluation?](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/questions/97b24d1729c7f32e2e09cb297328a2f7977235c746960d243536ee8b9e4e494d) (id 38, asked 4 times)
- [Why wasn't a specific page cited by an AI answer instead of a competitor's page?](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/questions/e08c55e6af0f8858dae0af2af4eb4caafe28dfb739f1ed4163e9cb0d954bb2ff) (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?](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/questions/064f0033dab1091575ab29137f558668ff6193e891221987fd9523c31b4ff78f) (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:261024.

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## Links

- [Daily counts for every crawler](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed)
- [The crawler records](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/crawlers)
- [Method](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/method)
- [Data](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/data)
- [MCP endpoint (POST JSON-RPC)](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/mcp)
- [Dataset repository](https://github.com/crank-box/rattlesnakesbymail-data)
- [All snapshots](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/snapshots)
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- [Facts as JSON](https://261024.rattlesnakesbymail.com/facts.json)
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