Study 02 · Supporting Market Volume · Singapore

llms.txt Adoption in Singapore

A descriptive market breakdown. These figures show what Singapore looked like; what the study demonstrates — that llms.txt adoption does not predict AI-crawler openness — is established in the pooled cross-market benchmark, where the sample supports inference.

Research instrumentPTODA C01 Crawler v1.3
Scan date17 June 2026
Sample268 domains · 186 scannable · 36 adopters
19.4%
of scannable Singapore businesses have adopted llms.txt

36 of 186 scannable domains publish llms.txt, of which 88.9% are valid files. Singapore has the highest adoption rate and the lowest observed contradiction rate of the four — though its adopter sample is the smallest, so the figure is descriptive only.

The market figures

Adoption, conformance, contradiction, and the reconfirmed access benchmark for Singapore — all drawn from the pooled study tables.

19.4%
llms.txt adoption
36 of 186 scannable domains.
88.9%
Conformance of adopters
32 of 36 published a valid file.
22.2%
Contradiction (observed)
8 of 36 adopters also block AI crawlers.
33.1%
Access benchmark
58 / 175 domains with an observable policy block at least one AI retrieval crawler. Reconfirms the frozen v1.2 figure.
36
Adopters observed
The llms.txt adopter count for Singapore — the paired-analysis base for this market.
186
Scannable domains
Domains where the relevant layer could be observed (denominator).

Interpretation note

Descriptive, not inferential. This market-level report is descriptive. The number of llms.txt adopters observed within a single market is insufficient to support independent statistical inference regarding the relationship between llms.txt adoption and AI-crawler access. The inferential finding for this study is reported in the pooled four-market benchmark, which combines all observable domains into a single paired analysis (n = 1,617).

This separation is deliberate. A single market's adopter sample is too small for its contradiction rate to be read as a proven market effect — Singapore’s 22.2% is observed, not demonstrated. For the hypothesis test, the null result, the effect size, and the interpretation, see the pooled AI Accessibility & Machine-Readable Guidance Benchmark, which carries all inferential claims for this study.