Bravebot

What is Bravebot?

About

Bravebot is Brave Search's independent web crawler that discovers and indexes new pages for Brave's search engine, building an independent search index free from Big Tech dependencies. You can see how often Bravebot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Search engine crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including popularity, the rate at which its content is updated, and the website's overall trustworthiness. Websites with fresh, high-quality content tend to be crawled more frequently, while less active or less reputable sites may be visited less often.

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Insights

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Search Engine Crawlers

Robots.txt

Should I Block Bravebot?

Probably not. Search engine crawlers power search engines, which are a useful way for users to discover your website. In fact, blocking search engine crawlers could severely reduce your traffic.

How Do I Block Bravebot?

You can block Bravebot 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.

# robots.txt
# This should block Bravebot

User-agent: Bravebot
Disallow: /