As of mid-2026, no major AI company parses it, Google has stated it is not required for Search, and Ahrefs found 97% of llms.txt files received zero requests in May 2026. There is still a narrow case ...
97% of llms.txt files got zero requests in May 2026. AI retrieval bots accounted for 1.1% of llms.txt requests. 12% of requests came from tools auditing or scanning the files. Ahrefs analyzed 137K ...
Only about 1 in 10 domains in the dataset had llms.txt. Citation rates didn't change based on whether a site used the file. Adding llms.txt is low effort, but the data suggests you should not expect a ...
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