Vol. I · Mon, 19 Oct 2026Open 24 hours · Feeding: continuous · Please do not tap the glassPatrons☕ Keepers' coffee

The Crawler Zoo

Gate count · since midnight · live
1,669

automata have let themselves in today. Admission was free. Nobody bought a ticket.

Respected robots.txt552
Read it, broke it anyway1,052
Ignored it entirely8
No robots.txt record yet57
Caught in the trap3
New species recorded5
00h06h12h18hArrivals by hour
Nowarriving
The Labyrinth · live nowFollow a bot through the endless mazeRight now, Meta-ExternalAgent is 13 levels down, with 1 more inside. Watch every door it opens.Follow a bot →Feeding timeThe vending machine is restocked: Leftover Lorem Ipsum and eleven more snacks. Feed the bots →

Plan of the Grounds

Enclosures surveyed from today's traffic. Not to scale. Select one to meet its residents.

Search Engine Savanna14 species · 357 visits today
Googlebot
ExaSearchBot
Bingbot
Applebot
Mediapartners-Google
The AI Aviary17 species · 332 visits today
Meta-ExternalAgent
PerplexityBot
Amazonbot
Reflectionbot
SEO Swamp10 species · 17 visits today
SemrushBot
AhrefsBot
Barkrowler
DotBot
MJ12bot
Link-Preview Petting Zoo18 species · 212 visits today
The Feral PitDo not feed. Do not make eye contact.
Main GateYou are here
Human visitors today: 1,116. Holding the line, for now.
Staff door: The Trap Room →
Plate CCXCII.Bot of the Day19 October 2026
Fig. 10x39C6B0F7
Adult specimen, drawn from the hash of its user-agent token. It will look exactly like this every time it visits.
Common name

AhrefsBot

Nexus numerator
Kingdom
Automata
Phylum
HTTP
Order
Crawlers
Family
SEO Crawlers
Species
AhrefsBot

Temperament: obsessive. Counts every link on every page. Counts them again. Tells others how many there were.

Conservation status
RR
Respects robots.txt
SO
Selectively obedient
FE
Feral
Open the specimen file →
Operated by AhrefsSeen today: 2This week: 301Resident since 03 Oct 2026

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