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What the data says about AI tools
Numbers measured from directree's own crawl of every listed tool: pricing, crawler policies, stacks, adoption. Each piece states its sample, its data date and its method, and is recomputed on a schedule instead of going stale.
45.3%llms.txt on 400 websites: what a fresh check foundA fresh audit of 400 Directree-listed websites found 181 matching llms.txt documents, five domain-sale files and four unassessable homepages. Data and method included.400 websites · data as of 22 Sept 202676.3%Next.js leads our crawl of 10,242 software websitesNext.js appears on 76.3% of directree-listed websites with a detected framework, and 37.7% of all 10,242 checked. September 2026 data, category comparisons and methodology.5,060 tools · data as of 15 Sept 202610.5%How many AI tools block GPTBot?In a September 2026 crawl of 9,037 directory-listed tools, 10.5% explicitly disallowed GPTBot. See the method, hosting breakdown and limits.9,037 tools · data as of 7 Sept 2026 · updated 15 Sept 2026
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