{"schema_version":"2026-05-26","source":"https://www.rank4ai.co.uk/data/uk-ai-search-visibility-stat-index/","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","count":1,"statistics":[{"slug":"23-percent-uk-sme-websites-blocking-ai-crawlers","title":"23% of UK SME Websites Are Blocking AI Crawlers in Their","category":"AI Crawler Access","stat_value":"23.3%","stat_date":"2026-03-12","source_name":"Rank4AI Original Research","summary":"We checked the robots.txt files of 30 UK small business websites to see whether they were blocking AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot.","url":"https://www.rank4ai.co.uk/research/stats/23-percent-uk-sme-websites-blocking-ai-crawlers/"}]}