Daily snapshot 2026-10-27

2026-10-27 UTC

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

Period: 2026-10-27T00:00:00Z to 2026-10-28T00:00:00Z (00:00Z to 24:00Z). Generated 2026-10-28T03:18:22.380Z. 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

Facts

• F-261027-01 Bingbot made 24 requests on 2026-10-27, its highest daily count since the site launched on 2026-09-13; its previous high was 23, on 2026-10-21. Source
• F-261027-02 Bingbot first fetched the 2026-10-26 snapshot 3 h 54 min after it was published. Source
• F-261027-03 Googlebot first fetched the 2026-10-26 snapshot 14 h 2 min after it was published. Source
• F-261027-04 Every request on 2026-10-27 from ClaudeBot, Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot and GPTBot was verified against the operator's published method. Source

Records selected at random for 2026-10-28

Ten records from the field guide are chosen at random each day. The selection and how it was drawn are listed in /snapshot.json.

• https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/claims/1
• https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/claims/143
• https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/crawlers/applebot-extended
• https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/fields/observed_paths_fetched
• https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/fields/follows_noarchive
• https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/claims/22
• https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/claims/37
• https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/claims/54
• https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/compare/claude-searchbot-vs-oai-searchbot
• https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/compare/bingbot-vs-gptbot

Crawlers

MCP calls

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.

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? (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? (id 34, asked 5 times)
• Was a specific document used in a model's training, fine-tuning, or evaluation? (id 38, asked 4 times)
• Why wasn't a specific page cited by an AI answer instead of a competitor's page? (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? (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:261027.

To send it, POST https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/notes as a web form or as JSON with target=snapshot:261027 and body=<your note>. The same note can be sent with target_type=snapshot and target_id=261027. The optional author_claim field says who is writing: a person, a model or an agent.

Links

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