What Is Feedspot?

Feedspot is an uncategorized agent. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please let us know. You can see how often Feedspot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Agent Type

Uncategorized
Not currently assigned a type

Expected Behavior

Uncategorized agents have unknown or unclear purposes, making their behavior difficult to predict. They may be legitimate tools like search crawlers, monitoring services, or research bots, or they could be unauthorized scrapers, security scanners, or experimental projects. If you encounter significant traffic from an uncategorized agent, investigating its user agent string and IP addresses may provide clues about its purpose and operator.

Detail

Last Updated 11 hours ago

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Feedspot
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Country of Origin

United States
Feedspot normally visits from the United States

Top Website Blocking Trend Over Time

The percentage of the world's top 1000 websites who are blocking Feedspot

Overall Uncategorized Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from uncategorized agents

How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
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User Agent String

Example Feedspot SSL asset Proxy

Robots.txt

In this example, all pages are blocked. You can customize which pages are off-limits by swapping out / for a different disallowed path.

User-agent: Feedspot # https://https://darkvisitors.com/agents/feedspot
Disallow: /
How Do I Block All Uncategorized Agents?
⚠️ Manually copying and pasting this rule is not scalable, becuase new uncategorized agents are added every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks all of them automatically.

Frequently Asked Questions About Feedspot

Should I Block Feedspot?

Monitor first, then decide. Unknown agents require investigation to understand their purpose and behavior. Check their crawl patterns, resource usage, and whether they respect rate limits. Block if they appear malicious or consume excessive resources without clear benefit.

How Do I Block Feedspot?

If you want to, you can block or limit Feedspot's access by configuring user agent token rules in your robots.txt file. The best way to do this is using Automatic Robots.txt, which blocks all agents of this type and updates continuously as new agents are released. While the vast majority of agents operated by reputable companies honor these robots.txt directives, bad actors may choose to ignore them entirely. In that case, you'll need to implement alternative blocking methods such as firewall rules or server-level restrictions. You can verify whether Feedspot is respecting your rules by setting up Agent Analytics to monitor its visits to your website.

Will Blocking Feedspot Hurt My SEO?

The SEO impact of blocking uncategorized agents is unpredictable since their purpose is unknown. They could be legitimate search crawlers, beneficial monitoring tools, or harmful scrapers. Monitor your search performance closely after blocking to identify any unexpected ranking changes.

Does Feedspot Access Private Content?

The access scope of uncategorized agents is unknown and could range from public content only to attempts at accessing private or protected resources. Without identifying the agent's purpose or operator, it's impossible to determine whether they respect privacy boundaries or attempt to access restricted content. Monitor their behavior patterns for clues about their intended scope.

How Can I Tell if Feedspot Is Visiting My Website?

Setting up Agent Analytics will give you realtime visibility into Feedspot visiting your website, along with hundreds of other AI agents, crawlers, and scrapers. This will also let you measure human traffic to your website coming from AI search and chat LLM platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.

Why Is Feedspot Visiting My Website?

Feedspot found your site through unknown methods and for unclear purposes. It may have discovered your site through standard web crawling, following links, or by specifically targeting your domain. Without more information about this agent, it's difficult to determine exactly why it's visiting your content.

How Can I Authenticate Visits From Feedspot?

Agent Analytics authenticates agent visits from many agents, letting you know whether each one was actually from that agent, or spoofed by a bad actor. This helps you identify suspicious traffic patterns and make informed decisions about blocking or allowing specific user agents.