Google-InspectionTool
What is Google-InspectionTool?
About
Google-InspectionTool powers Search Console's URL Inspection tool and Rich Results Test, crawling pages to validate indexability, structured data markup, and search feature compatibility on user request. You can see how often Google-InspectionTool visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
Expected Behavior
Security scanners do not follow a predictable schedule when visiting websites. Their scans can be one-time, occasional, or recurring depending on the purpose of the scanner and the organization's security practices. The frequency and depth of their scans can vary based on factors like the visibility of the site on the public internet, past scan results, and inclusion in external threat intelligence feeds.
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| Last Updated | 11 minutes ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Security Scanners
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block Google-InspectionTool?
Probably not. Security scanners can be beneficial, especially if they're configured to report issues back to you.
How Do I Block Google-InspectionTool?
You can block Google-InspectionTool 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.
| User Agent String | Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.7204.183 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-InspectionTool/1.0;) |
# robots.txt
# This should block Google-InspectionTool
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
Disallow: /