Blockaid

What is Blockaid?

About

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

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers generally visit websites on direct behalf of a user who is evaluating some feature or attribute. Visits can be one-off or part of a larger crawl.

Type

Developer Helper

Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By	Blockaid
Last Updated	17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking Blockaid

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Country of Origin

Unknown

Blockaid has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Blockaid?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block Blockaid?

You can block Blockaid 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 Developer Helpers?

Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new developer helpers automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Blockaid # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/blockaid
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.