B
Evidence Grade B
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55 -- ai crawler reads of discovery files for mcneece.com (AI Visibility test site) (2026-06)
Over thirty days of logs, mcneece.com recorded 55 reads of its AI discovery files by nine named AI bots.
- Single site server log data; does not describe the whole web.
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55
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Count
Data Vintage
2026-06
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GB
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
AI Visibility (365i)
Primary
Tier B
https://www.ai-visibility.org.uk/blog/do-ai-crawlers-read-ai-discovery-files/ ↗
Source Article
Do AI Crawlers Read Your AI Discovery Files? | AI Visibility
Update, 1 July 2026: a month on, they arrived
When this went out, our 11-day log showed only Meta and Bing. A month on, the picture changed: over the 30 days to 29 June, 11 AI crawlers made 73 requests to this site's files, none blocked, and the major LLM crawlers were among them this time. Nine of …
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AI Visibility (365i)
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Single-site server log via WordPress plugin; not aggregate industry data
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mcneece.com (AI Visibility test site): 55 ai crawler reads of discovery files. Source: AI Visibility (365i) (2026-06). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-visibility-30day-file-reads-2026
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