ia_archiver
What is ia_archiver?
About
ia_archiver is an archiver operated by Internet Archive. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often ia_archiver visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
Expected Behavior
Archivers visit websites on a roughly regular cadence, since snapshots are more useful when they're regularly spaced out. Popular websites will have more frequent visits since they are more likely to be queried in the historical database in the future.
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Detail
Operated By | Internet Archive |
Last Updated | 13 hours ago |
Insights
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Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Archivers
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Robots.txt
Should I Block ia_archiver?
It's up to you. Digital archiving is generally done to preserve a historical record. If you don't want to be part of that record for some reason, you can block archivers.
How Do I Block ia_archiver?
You can block ia_archiver 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 | ia_archiver (+http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters; crawler@alexa.com) |
# robots.txt
# This should block ia_archiver
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /