Barkrowler

What is Barkrowler?

About

Barkrowler is an SEO web crawler operated by Babbar that analyzes websites to identify page popularity, topical relevance, and authority metrics for search engine optimization and competitive analysis research. You can see how often Barkrowler visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including the search keywords it ranks for, and how many other websites link to it.

Type

SEO Crawler
Discovers search engine optimization insights

Detail

Operated By Babbar
Last Updated 6 minutes ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

1%
1% of top websites are blocking Barkrowler
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Country of Origin

France
Barkrowler normally visits from France

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from SEO Crawlers

Top Visited Website Categories

Sports
Books and Literature
Reference
Health
Hobbies and Leisure
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Barkrowler?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an SEO service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

How Do I Block Barkrowler?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Barkrowler or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Barkrowler/0.9; +https://babbar.tech/crawler) 
# robots.txt
# This should block Barkrowler

User-agent: Barkrowler
Disallow: /

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