Websites Blocking news-please

Site Stats Database currently tracks 2,235 websites that block news-please. 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, news-please is #117 of 10,135 blocked crawlers & bots that Site Stats Database tracks.

The most common topics among them are Forum, Community, and News, and they are most common in United States and Spain. The breakdowns above show the full split, based on the 2,235 we track.

They tend to have stronger authority than the typical website: the median news-please site has an Ahrefs Domain Rating of 39, higher than the 28 median across all sites Site Stats Database tracks.

Over the last 2 months, the number we track grew 9.0%, 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 2,235 websites that block news-please.

Yes. The complete, filterable list of all 2,235 websites that block news-please, enriched with traffic history, authority, keywords, and the full tech stack, is available with a Site Stats Database plan.