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69.7% of websites have no llms.txt file

Roughly 7 in 10 sites publish no llms.txt, the emerging standard for describing key content directly to AI crawlers.

ID
SS-BM-003
Confidence
High · 90
Evidence
Strong
Updated
2026-07-08
69.7% Roughly 7 in 10 sites publish no llms.txt, the emerging standard for describing key content directly to AI crawlers.
Sample
~6,944 websites
Period
July 2026
Source
SearchScore interactive audit data
Updates
Auto-refreshed

What this means

Only 30.3% of audited sites publish an llms.txt file, so a comprehensive one is still a genuine differentiator. It gives AI crawlers a curated map of a site's most important content rather than leaving them to infer it. Adoption is low enough that early movers gain disproportionate clarity in how they are read.

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