ias_crawler

What is ias_crawler?

About

ias_crawler from Integral Ad Science performs digital ad verification, brand safety monitoring, and fraud detection across digital advertising channels to ensure quality media measurement. You can see how often ias_crawler visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

The behavior of intelligence gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.

Type

Intelligence Gatherer
Searches for useful insights

Detail

Operated By Integral Ad Science
Last Updated 7 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking ias_crawler
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Country of Origin

United States
ias_crawler normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

Top Visited Website Categories

Food and Drink
Jobs and Education
Hobbies and Leisure
Games
News
How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
Use the WordPress plugin, Node.js package, or API to get started in seconds.

Robots.txt

Should I Block ias_crawler?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

How Do I Block ias_crawler?

You can block ias_crawler 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.

How Do I Block All Intelligence Gatherers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new intelligence gatherers automatically.
User Agent String IAS Crawler (ias_crawler; http://integralads.com/site-indexing-policy/)
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: ias_crawler # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/ias-crawler
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

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