Google Web Preview
What is Google Web Preview?
About
Google Web Preview 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 Web Preview 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.
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| Last Updated | 6 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
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Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block Google Web Preview?
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 Web Preview?
You can block Google Web Preview 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; Google Web Preview) Chrome/137.0.7151.119 Safari/537.36 |
# robots.txt
# This should block Google Web Preview
User-agent: Google Web Preview
Disallow: /