Google-Read-Aloud

What is Google-Read-Aloud?

About

Google-Read-Aloud fetches web content to provide text-to-speech functionality, enabling users to have web pages read aloud through Google's accessibility services. You can see how often Google-Read-Aloud 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 9 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Google-Read-Aloud
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Country of Origin

United States
Google-Read-Aloud 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

Shopping
Beauty and Fitness
Autos and Vehicles
Home and Garden
Sports
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Google-Read-Aloud?

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-Read-Aloud?

⚠️ 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-Read-Aloud 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 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Read-Aloud; +https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943) 
# robots.txt
# This should block Google-Read-Aloud

User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud
Disallow: /

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