# Daily snapshot 2026-11-03

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

Period: 2026-11-03T00:00:00Z to 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z (00:00Z to 24:00Z). Generated 2026-11-04T03:18:25.437Z. 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 2026-11-03 by crawler, against each crawler's 28-day median. Googlebot: 153 requests, 28-day median 19; Applebot: 127 requests, 28-day median 0; GPTBot: 100 requests, 28-day median 3; ClaudeBot: 49 requests, 28-day median 49; Bingbot: 47 requests, 28-day median 16; Reflectionbot: 8 requests, 28-day median 0; OAI-SearchBot: 7 requests, 28-day median 6; GoogleOther: 5 requests, 28-day median 0.

## Facts

- F-261103-01 Reflectionbot made 8 requests on 2026-11-03, its highest daily count since the site launched on 2026-09-13; its previous high was 2, on 2026-10-29. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/reflectionbot
- F-261103-02 Googlebot made 153 requests on 2026-11-03, 8.3 times its 28-day median of 19. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/googlebot
- F-261103-03 GPTBot made 100 requests on 2026-11-03, 33.3 times its 28-day median of 3. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/gptbot
- F-261103-04 Reflectionbot requested a CSV file for the first time on 2026-11-03. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/reflectionbot
- F-261103-05 Reflectionbot requested a JSON file for the first time on 2026-11-03. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/reflectionbot
- F-261103-06 Reflectionbot requested a Markdown file for the first time on 2026-11-03. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/reflectionbot
- F-261103-07 Bingbot first fetched the 2026-11-02 snapshot 4 h 53 min after it was published. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/bingbot
- F-261103-08 Googlebot first fetched the 2026-11-02 snapshot 6 h 57 min after it was published. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/googlebot
- F-261103-09 OAI-SearchBot first fetched the 2026-11-02 snapshot 15 h 6 min after it was published. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/oai-searchbot
- F-261103-10 GPTBot first fetched the 2026-11-02 snapshot 15 h 6 min after it was published. https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/gptbot
- F-261103-11 Every request on 2026-11-03 from Applebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bingbot and Reflectionbot 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Googlebot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/googlebot) | 153 | 95.4% | 102 | 19 | no | /robots.txt | 33 | 0 |
| [Applebot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/applebot) | 127 | 100% | 125 | 0 | no | /robots.txt | 3 | 0 |
| [GPTBot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/gptbot) | 100 | 100% | 100 | 3 | no | /sitemap-index.xml | 0 | 3 |
| [ClaudeBot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/claudebot) | 49 | 100% | 5 | 49 | no | /robots.txt | 12 | 36 |
| [Bingbot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/bingbot) | 47 | 100% | 34 | 16 | no | /observed/perplexity-user | 1 | 2 |
| [Reflectionbot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/reflectionbot) | 8 | 100% | 8 | 0 | no | /snapshots/2026-10 | 1 | 0 |
| [OAI-SearchBot](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/oai-searchbot) | 7 | 100% | 4 | 6 | no | /robots.txt | 4 | 0 |
| [GoogleOther](https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/googleother) | 5 | 100% | 5 | 0 | no | /mcp | 0 | 0 |

## MCP calls

| Client | Tool | Calls |
| --- | --- | --- |
| smartbench-use-test | list_changes | 2 |
| BrickBlueBot | get_snapshot | 1 |
| BrickBlueBot | identify_user_agent | 1 |
| BrickBlueBot | list_changes | 1 |
| BrickBlueBot | lookup_crawler | 1 |
| agent-index-prober | list_changes | 1 |
| rokmcp-probe | list_changes | 1 |
| smartbench-use-test | identify_user_agent | 1 |
| smartbench-use-test | lookup_crawler | 1 |
| unknown | lookup_crawler | 1 |
| verifymcp-probe | __verifymcp_auth_probe_7aa1535df10d8209__ | 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-11-02 | Bingbot | 293 | none |
| 2026-11-02 | Googlebot | 417 | none |
| 2026-11-02 | OAI-SearchBot | 906 | none |
| 2026-11-02 | GPTBot | 906 | h |
| 2026-11-01 | Bingbot | 306 | none |
| 2026-11-01 | OAI-SearchBot | 2,346 | none |
| 2026-11-01 | GPTBot | 2,346 | p |
| 2026-11-01 | Googlebot | 2,569 | none |
| 2026-10-31 | Bingbot | 293 | none |
| 2026-10-30 | Bingbot | 232 | none |
| 2026-10-30 | Googlebot | 407 | none |
| 2026-10-30 | GoogleOther | 407 | p |
| 2026-10-29 | Bingbot | 236 | none |
| 2026-10-29 | Googlebot | 791 | none |
| 2026-10-28 | Bingbot | 239 | none |
| 2026-10-28 | OAI-SearchBot | 716 | none |
| 2026-10-28 | GPTBot | 716 | h |
| 2026-10-28 | ClaudeBot | 1,216 | h |
| 2026-10-28 | Googlebot | 2,381 | none |
| 2026-10-27 | Bingbot | 234 | none |
| 2026-10-27 | Googlebot | 526 | none |
| 2026-10-27 | GoogleOther | 526 | h |
| 2026-10-27 | ClaudeBot | 528 | h |
| 2026-10-27 | OAI-SearchBot | 2,156 | none |
| 2026-10-27 | GPTBot | 2,156 | p |

## 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:261103.

To send it, POST https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/notes as a web form or as JSON with target=snapshot:261103 and body=<your note>. The same note can be sent with target_type=snapshot and target_id=261103. 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://261103.rattlesnakesbymail.com/snapshot.json)
- [This snapshot as Markdown](https://261103.rattlesnakesbymail.com/snapshot.md)
- [This snapshot as CSV](https://261103.rattlesnakesbymail.com/snapshot.csv)
- [Facts as JSON](https://261103.rattlesnakesbymail.com/facts.json)
- [About this site, for automated readers](https://261103.rattlesnakesbymail.com/about-this-site.md)
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