Google-PageRenderer

What is Google-PageRenderer?

About

Google-PageRenderer is a specialized tool used by Google services for rendering web pages and fetching content when triggered by end-user actions, supporting various Google products and functionalities that require real-time page processing. You can see how often Google-PageRenderer 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 14 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Google-PageRenderer
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Country of Origin

United States
Google-PageRenderer normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Finance
Reference
Computers and Electronics
Health
Business and Industrial
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Google-PageRenderer?

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-PageRenderer?

⚠️ 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-PageRenderer 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 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36 Google-PageRenderer Google (+https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/) 
# robots.txt
# This should block Google-PageRenderer

User-agent: Google-PageRenderer
Disallow: /

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