Websites Blocking FriendlyCrawler

Site Stats Database currently tracks 5,163 websites that block FriendlyCrawler. We detect this by analyzing each site's homepage, response headers, and DNS, then enrich every record with traffic and authority data.

By number of sites, FriendlyCrawler is #39 of 10,135 blocked crawlers & bots that Site Stats Database tracks.

The most common topics among them are News, Forum, and Community, and they are most common in United States and Germany. The breakdowns above show the full split, based on the 5,163 we track.

They tend to have stronger authority than the typical website: the median FriendlyCrawler site has an Ahrefs Domain Rating of 50, higher than the 28 median across all sites Site Stats Database tracks.

Over the last 2 months, the number we track grew 19%, based on Site Stats Database's month-by-month snapshots of this group.

Traffic estimates, organic keywords, and authority come from DataForSEO; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs' public endpoint; and the topic, market, and tech detections come from Site Stats Database's own crawler, which inspects each site's HTML, headers, DNS, and TLS certificate.

At least monthly. Traffic and rankings refresh every month, and detections refresh as sites are re-crawled, so this page always reflects the current 5,163 websites that block FriendlyCrawler.

Yes. The complete, filterable list of all 5,163 websites that block FriendlyCrawler, enriched with traffic history, authority, keywords, and the full tech stack, is available with a Site Stats Database plan.