Feedwind
What is Feedwind?
About
Feedwind is Mikle's RSS feed aggregation bot that accesses feed sources every 5 minutes to 5 hours (depending on user plan) to keep feed widgets updated with the latest content from subscribed websites and blogs. You can see how often Feedwind visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
Expected Behavior
Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.
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Operated By | Mikle |
Last Updated | 17 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Robots.txt
Should I Block Feedwind?
Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.
How Do I Block Feedwind?
You can block Feedwind 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 Feedwind
User-agent: Feedwind
Disallow: /