Websites Blocking MLBot

Site Stats Database currently tracks 221 websites that block MLBot. 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, MLBot is #667 of 10,135 blocked crawlers & bots that Site Stats Database tracks.

The most common topics among them are Games, Reviews, and Cars, and they are most common in United States and France. The breakdowns above show the full split, based on the 221 we track.

They tend to have stronger authority than the typical website: the median MLBot site has an Ahrefs Domain Rating of 54, higher than the 28 median across all sites Site Stats Database tracks.

Over the last 2 months, the number we track grew 15%, 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 221 websites that block MLBot.

Yes. The complete, filterable list of all 221 websites that block MLBot, enriched with traffic history, authority, keywords, and the full tech stack, is available with a Site Stats Database plan.