Sites using Dark Visitors
Service that catalogues and helps sites block AI scraping bots and LLM training crawlers.
Found via: Product Hunt 5
Dark Visitors has been detected on 5 launches since first appearing in April 2026. Most recent detection: Gauge, on August 18, 2026.
It's most commonly paired with Google Search Console, Cloudflare DNS, and Cloudflare.
Share of new sites using Dark Visitors
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before July 2026.
The shaded parts of the chart are measured against a different set of sites.
Grey: until 8 July 2026 we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well.
Amber: on 10 September 2026 we improved our infrastructure so we can index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from that date. We record each site as it was when we found it.
The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time, so it can step at these lines without the technology itself changing. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.
Security leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – | HSTS | 47.31% | 88.45% |
| #2 | – |
Cloudflare Bot Management
|
13.29% | 24.84% |
| #3 | – |
Google reCAPTCHA
|
1.82% | 3.40% |
| #4 | ▲1 |
Anubis
|
0.09% | 0.16% |
| #5 | ▼2 |
DDoS-Guard
|
0.09% | 0.16% |
| … | ||||
| #127 | Dark Visitors Current page | <0.01% | <0.01% | |
Percentages show adoption among indie launches: the share of all analysed launches, and of launches using any Security tool. All 376 in Security →
Often used with
| Tool | Sites |
|---|---|
Google Search Console
|
5 |
Cloudflare DNS
|
5 |
Cloudflare
|
5 |
Google Analytics
|
5 |
Google Workspace
|
4 |
Tools most often detected on the same sites as Dark Visitors.
Recent launches we can show
5 of the 5 sites using Dark Visitors are product launches we list individually.
