Google Favicon

What is Google Favicon?

About

Google Favicon is a search engine crawler operated by Google. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Google Favicon 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 Google Favicon?

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 Google Favicon?

You can block Google Favicon 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.

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Google Favicon # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/google-favicon
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.

References

• http://google.com/bot.html