Bots & Agents
Learn about the bots and agents that visit your site. Understand how they impact your traffic and revenue.
What is a bot?
A bot is an automated system that works on the internet. Bots visit websites for many reasons.
We have 12 categories that describe why they visit web pages.
We have 12 subcategories that explain who runs the bot.
What is an agent?
An agent is any HTTP client that visits your website.
Every HTTP client includes a user-agent string which is like an internet name badge.
robots.nxt monitors these headers to identify and categorize bots.
Want to see what bots are visiting your website?
This bot is a conversational AI designed to assist users by understanding and responding to their queries, providing information on a wide range of topics, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations. It aims to simulate human-like interactions, offering helpful and accurate responses to user questions and interests.
The Bingbot is a web crawler and search engine bot from Microsoft Bing. It is used to index and categorize web pages for inclusion in Bing's search results, providing users with relevant search results and ensuring the accuracy of search data.
This bot, Mail.RU_Bot, is a web crawler from Mail.RU, a Russian web search engine and portal. It is used to index and catalog web pages for search results and may occasionally visit websites to gather content and updates.
This bot, Slackbot-LinkExpanding, is a link expander bot that assists in expanding shortened links sent within Slack conversations. With this bot, users can effortlessly expand links to their original URLs, allowing for easy access to the desired content, websites, or multimedia files.
Googlebot is a search engine bot that is used by Google to crawl and index web pages. It is used to gather and compile data for Google's search engine results, allowing users to find relevant information online. Googlebot helps to keep the web's information organized and up-to-date, making it easier for users to find what they're looking for.
This is Googlebot-Mobile, a web crawler bot used by Google to index and retrieve mobile-friendly web pages. It periodically searches the web to collect and update information, providing users with the most relevant and accurate search results.
The Googlebot-Image bot is a web crawler service operated by Google that extracts and indexes images from the internet. Its primary function is to identify and store image content, allowing users to search and retrieve visual data. This bot is an essential component of Google's image search functionality, ensuring that users can find relevant and accurate visual results when searching online.
This bot, Googlebot-News, is a web crawler designed by Google to retrieve news articles from various sources and update online indexes for Google News. It helps users discover current and past news stories from around the world, making it easier to stay informed about global events.
The Googlebot-Video bot is a program used by Google to index and render video content on the web. This bot helps Google to crawl and analyze video files, allowing users to discover and access video content through Google's search engine.
This bot is a search engine bot used by Microsoft Bing to crawl and index web pages in order to provide accurate search results. It is known as "adidxbot" and is likely used to gather data on various web pages and websites to improve Bing's search engine functionality.
This bot is designed to assist users in monitoring and analyzing their LinkedIn activities, including news and updates from the platform. With capabilities to scrape and process data, this bot aims to provide insights and reports on LinkedIn account activity, helping users to stay informed and improve their online presence.
The yacybot is a web crawler and search engine bot from YaCy, a decentralized search engine project. It periodically crawls the web to index new content and update existing information, helping to power YaCy's peer-to-peer search capabilities.
Yandex, a Russian technology company, uses this bot to crawl websites and gather information for their search engine. It may be used to index web pages, follow links, and gather metadata to improve the relevance and accuracy of search results.
This bot is Baiduspider, a web crawler bot from Baidu, a prominent Chinese search engine. It is likely used to index web pages and gather data for Baidu's search results, crawling websites and web pages to build its database of online content.
This bot is a Facebook web crawler, which is used to scan and index content from various websites. It's a legitimate bot authorized by Facebook to help improve the search results and suggestions on the platform.
RogerBot is a web crawler bot from UrlCrawler, a SEO monitoring tool. It collects data on website trends and optimization to provide insights for website owners and developers. As part of its activities, RogerBot is designed to visit and analyze websites, gathering information on technical aspects such as page speed, crawlability, and backlinks.
Livelap is a content discovery app that indexes web content. Probably you have seen the Livelapbot/0.1 or LivelapBot/0.2 crawler in your server logs. LivelapBot can visit a page if it is shared on social media, and as part of its RSS/page crawling schedule. Livelap indexes web content and makes meta data and a link to your content available in livelap.com and in the Livelap app. For indexing we only use official HTML and media meta tags in your page. We don't scrape the contents of your articles.
Pinterestbot is Pinterest’s web crawler. Pinterestbot crawls, or visits public websites to index their content, with the aim of driving traffic back to those websites. It also scrapes content to make sure Pin details, like price and title, are up to date, and to detect and remove broken website links behind Pins. Pinterestbot will respect all requests to stop or limit crawling. You can request that Pinterestbot stop or limit crawling your website via robots.txt (the robots exclusion standard).
The CriteoBot is a web crawler bot that collects data for the Criteo advertising platform. It anonymously gathers information from websites to help Criteo provide relevant online advertisements to users based on their browsing behavior. The bot does not collect personally identifiable information and does not interact with website content.
TombaPublicWebCrawler is an indexing robot for a web search engine, similar to Google. Created by Tomba technology web service LLC.(Tomba.io), TombaPublicWebCrawler’s patented technology continually scans millions of corporate websites, press releases, electronic news services, SEC filings and other online sources. Using advanced natural language processing algorithms, Tomba has created a next generation search engine focused on finding pages with information about businesses and business professionals.
The KStandBot is a URL classification bot that uses various algorithms to analyze and categorize URLs based on their content, patterns, and reputation. Its primary function is to provide users with accurate and reliable information about the nature and potential risks associated with a given URL, helping them make informed decisions when interacting with online resources.
The AdsBot-Google is a crawling bot used by Google to scan and index web pages for its search engine results and advertising purposes. It helps ensure that Google's search algorithms can accurately fetch and display website content to users.
Slurp is the Yahoo Search robot for crawling and indexing web page information. Although some Yahoo Search results are powered by our partners, sites should allow Yahoo Slurp access in order to appear in Yahoo Mobile Search results. Additionally, Slurp does the following: Collects content from partner sites for inclusion within sites like Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports. Accesses pages from sites across the Web to confirm accuracy and improve Yahoo's personalized content for our users.