bitlybot

What is bitlybot?

About

bitlybot is a fetcher operated by Bitly. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often bitlybot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher

Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By	Bitly
Last Updated	1 day ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking bitlybot

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Country of Origin

United States

bitlybot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Beauty and Fitness

Health

Online Communities

Books and Literature

Finance

How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?

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Robots.txt

Should I Block bitlybot?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block bitlybot?

You can block bitlybot 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.

How Do I Block All Fetchers?

Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new fetchers automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

User Agent String bitlybot/3.0 (+http://bit.ly/)

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: bitlybot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/bitlybot
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.