An llms.txt is an invitation addressed to AI assistants: a short file at the root of a site, saying who you are and where to look. This reading counts the sites that have put it up, and reads what they tell those same crawlers in the file next door.
Published 5 September 2026
15,000-domain .fr panel, read on 4 September 2026
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Before reading a page, an AI crawler reads a file that says what it may do with it. That file exists on most websites. This survey looks at what it answers, and above all at who wrote it.
Published on 3 September 2026
10,301 .fr websites, surveyed on 3 September 2026
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Almost every one of these domains publishes an SPF record. This survey looks at the line after it: the policy that tells receiving servers what to do when the check fails.
Published on 3 September 2026, updated on 3 October 2026
1,730 French SMB domains that receive mail, surveyed on 23 September 2026
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A site cleaned after a hack starts out clean, then gets taken again. This survey looks at what cleaning never changes: the number of suppliers the site depends on.
Published 1 September 2026, updated 1 October 2026
3,543 French SMB sites, surveyed 23 September 2026
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