Google Inspection Tool

What is Google Inspection Tool?

About

Google Inspection Tool is a developer helper 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 Inspection Tool visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers generally visit websites on direct behalf of a user who is evaluating some feature or attribute. Visits can be one-off or part of a larger crawl.

Type

Developer Helper

Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By	Google
Last Updated	3 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking Google Inspection Tool

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Country of Origin

Unknown

Google Inspection Tool has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Google Inspection Tool?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block Google Inspection Tool?

⚠️ 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 Inspection Tool 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 Inspection Tool

User-agent: Google Inspection Tool
Disallow: /