BitSightBot

Last updated 14 hours ago.

What is BitSightBot?

About

BitSightBot is an intelligence gatherer operated by Bitsight. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.

You can set up agent analytics to see when BitSightBot visits your website.

Detail

Operator Bitsight

Type

Intelligence Gatherer
Searches for useful insights

Expected Behavior

The behavior of intelligence gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.

Insights

BitSightBot Visiting Your Website

Half of your traffic probably comes from artificial agents, and there are more of them every day. Track their activity with the API or WordPress plugin.

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Other Websites

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Access Control

Should I Block BitSightBot?

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

Using Robots.txt

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

User Agent Token Description
BitSightBot Should match instances of BitSightBot
# robots.txt
# This should block BitSightBot

User-agent: BitSightBot
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can use the API or Wordpress plugin to keep your robots.txt updated with the latest known AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.

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