Mediapartners-Google
What is Mediapartners-Google?
About
Mediapartners-Google crawls website content to analyze page context and keywords for Google AdSense ad targeting, determining appropriate advertisements to display based on site content and user demographics. You can see how often Mediapartners-Google 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.
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Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block Mediapartners-Google?
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 Mediapartners-Google?
You can block Mediapartners-Google 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 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko, Mediapartners-Google) Chrome/89.0.4389.130 Safari/537.36 |
# robots.txt
# This should block Mediapartners-Google
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: /