cXensebot
What is cXensebot?
About
cXensebot is Cxense's web crawler that performs content indexing and behavioral data collection to power Piano's customer data platform, enabling real-time analytics and audience segmentation for digital businesses. You can see how often cXensebot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
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.
Type
Detail
Operated By | Cxense |
Last Updated | 20 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers
Robots.txt
Should I Block cXensebot?
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.
How Do I Block cXensebot?
You can block cXensebot 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 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) cXensebot/2.0; +http://www.cxense.com/bot.html Safari/533.3 |
# robots.txt
# This should block cXensebot
User-agent: cXensebot
Disallow: /