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title: "Blog: studies on search, AI and web performance"
description: "Original studies and notes from Outofplace on search, AI crawlers and web performance, measured on real sites, and on how we build our own products."
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language: "en"
last_updated: "2026-09-23"
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  pl: "https://www.outofplace.space/pl/blog.md"
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# Blog: studies on search, AI and web performance

> Original studies and notes from Outofplace on search, AI crawlers and web performance, measured on real sites, and on how we build our own products.

## Posts

- [AI crawlers vs the Polish web: robots.txt on 1,000 .pl sites](https://www.outofplace.space/blog/ai-crawlers-polish-web) (2026-09-23): We read robots.txt on the 1,000 top .pl sites: one in five blocks AI crawlers like GPTBot, mostly for training, rarely AI search. How to split the two.
- [Next.js prefetch, measured: Partial Prefetching in 16.3](https://www.outofplace.space/blog/nextjs-prefetch-benchmark) (2026-09-23): Partial Prefetching in Next.js 16.3 cut prefetched bytes by up to 93% in our benchmark, but URL content now lands after the click. When each setup wins.