# Daily snapshot 2026-11-09

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

Period: 2026-11-09T00:00:00Z to 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z (00:00Z to 24:00Z). Generated 2026-11-10T03:18:19.811Z. 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 2026-11-09 by crawler, against each crawler's 28-day median. Googlebot: 53 requests, 28-day median 25; ClaudeBot: 47 requests, 28-day median 48; Bingbot: 39 requests, 28-day median 22; OAI-SearchBot: 5 requests, 28-day median 6; GPTBot: 4 requests, 28-day median 3; Applebot: 2 requests, 28-day median 1.

## Facts

- F-261109-01 ChatGPT-User has made no requests since 2026-11-02, 7 days. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/chatgpt-user
- F-261109-02 Bingbot first fetched the 2026-11-08 snapshot 4 h 57 min after it was published. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/bingbot
- F-261109-03 An MCP client named mcp-index first called __mcp_index_nonexistent__ on 2026-11-09. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/mcp
- F-261109-04 Every request on 2026-11-09 from Googlebot, ClaudeBot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot and GPTBot was verified against the operator's published method. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/method


## Records selected at random for 2026-11-10

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/claims/44
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/compare/claudebot-vs-googleother
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/claudebot
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/compare/bingbot-vs-claude-user
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/claims/145
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/claims/125
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/compare/claude-searchbot-vs-perplexity-user
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/compare/applebot-extended-vs-gptbot
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/claims/31
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/changes


## Crawlers

| Crawler | Requests | Verified share | Distinct paths | 28-day median | Sweep day | First path | robots.txt | sitemap |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Googlebot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/googlebot) | 53 | 100% | 30 | 25 | no | /.well-known/glama.json | 17 | 0 |
| [ClaudeBot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/claudebot) | 47 | 100% | 4 | 48 | no | /robots.txt | 12 | 35 |
| [Bingbot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/bingbot) | 39 | 100% | 23 | 22 | no | /robots.txt | 1 | 1 |
| [OAI-SearchBot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/oai-searchbot) | 5 | 100% | 3 | 6 | no | /robots.txt | 3 | 0 |
| [GPTBot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/gptbot) | 4 | 100% | 4 | 3 | no | /sitemap-index.xml | 0 | 3 |
| [Applebot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/applebot) | 2 | 100% | 2 | 1 | no | /robots.txt | 1 | 0 |

## MCP calls

| Client | Tool | Calls |
| --- | --- | --- |
| mcp-index | __mcp_index_nonexistent__ | 6 |
| mcp | list_changes | 2 |
| BrickBlueBot | get_snapshot | 1 |
| BrickBlueBot | identify_user_agent | 1 |
| BrickBlueBot | list_changes | 1 |
| BrickBlueBot | lookup_crawler | 1 |
| mcpyp-incremental | identify_user_agent | 1 |
| mcpyp-incremental | list_changes | 1 |
| mcpyp-incremental | lookup_crawler | 1 |
| rokmcp-probe | list_changes | 1 |
| verifymcp-probe | __verifymcp_auth_probe_60aef1057b3fdfc2__ | 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-11-08 | Bingbot | 297 | none |
| 2026-11-06 | Bingbot | 293 | none |
| 2026-11-06 | Googlebot | 294 | none |
| 2026-11-06 | GoogleOther | 294 | h |
| 2026-11-05 | Bingbot | 295 | none |
| 2026-11-05 | Googlebot | 448 | none |
| 2026-11-05 | GoogleOther | 581 | none |
| 2026-11-04 | Bingbot | 294 | none |
| 2026-11-04 | Googlebot | 294 | none |
| 2026-11-04 | GoogleOther | 294 | h |
| 2026-11-03 | Bingbot | 295 | none |
| 2026-11-03 | Googlebot | 558 | none |
| 2026-11-03 | GoogleOther | 558 | h |
| 2026-11-03 | Applebot | 8,375 | none |
| 2026-11-02 | Bingbot | 293 | none |
| 2026-11-02 | Googlebot | 417 | none |
| 2026-11-02 | OAI-SearchBot | 906 | none |
| 2026-11-02 | GPTBot | 906 | h |
| 2026-11-02 | Reflectionbot | 2,654 | none |
| 2026-11-02 | Applebot | 5,269 | 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:261109.

To send it, POST https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/notes as a web form or as JSON with target=snapshot:261109 and body=<your note>. The same note can be sent with target_type=snapshot and target_id=261109. The optional author_claim field says who is writing: a person, a model or an agent.

## 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)
- [This snapshot as JSON](https://261109.rattlesnakesbymail.com/snapshot.json)
- [This snapshot as Markdown](https://261109.rattlesnakesbymail.com/snapshot.md)
- [This snapshot as CSV](https://261109.rattlesnakesbymail.com/snapshot.csv)
- [Facts as JSON](https://261109.rattlesnakesbymail.com/facts.json)
- [About this site, for automated readers](https://261109.rattlesnakesbymail.com/about-this-site.md)
- [Previous snapshot (2026-11-08)](https://261108.rattlesnakesbymail.com/?c=p)

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