GoogleImageProxy
What is GoogleImageProxy?
About
GoogleImageProxy fetches and caches images and link previews for Gmail email rendering, enabling safe display of external content within Google's email interface. You can see how often GoogleImageProxy 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 | 17 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
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Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Robots.txt
Should I Block GoogleImageProxy?
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 GoogleImageProxy?
You can block GoogleImageProxy 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 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko Firefox/11.0 (via ggpht.com GoogleImageProxy) |
# robots.txt
# This should block GoogleImageProxy
User-agent: GoogleImageProxy
Disallow: /