Google Image Proxy

What is Google Image Proxy?

About

Google Image Proxy is a fetcher 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 Image Proxy 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.

Type

Fetcher

Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By	Google
Last Updated	6 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking Google Image Proxy

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Country of Origin

Unknown

Google Image Proxy has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Google Image Proxy?

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 Google Image Proxy?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Google Image Proxy 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 Google Image Proxy

User-agent: Google Image Proxy
Disallow: /