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Your firewall or CDN refuses AI training crawlers
Our test request with a training crawler's user agent (GPTBot, ClaudeBot) was refused while a browser got the page. This keeps pages out of model training, not out of AI search.
waf_blocks_training_bots · AI crawler access · Notice
What to change
Allow the verified crawler in your WAF only if you want your pages in model training.
How common it is
We have not measured how common this is on a sample of sites. Counts appear here when a study covers it.
About this check
| Check ID | waf_blocks_training_bots |
|---|---|
| Report section | AI crawler access |
| Severity | Notice |
| How it is decided | Measured: read directly from the page or the server's response. |
| Added | Before 19 Oct 2026 (versions 1 and 2), or a site-wide check with no version date yet |
| Status | Measured in every report |
| Report gives the code | No, the fix is described in words |
Related checks
- Your firewall or CDN refuses AI search crawlers
- Site is not served over HTTPS
- Pages return an error status
- robots.txt blocks ChatGPT-User
- robots.txt blocks Claude-SearchBot
- robots.txt blocks Claude-User
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