mirrorweb

What is mirrorweb?

About

mirrorweb is a web archiving crawler that captures websites in their entirety, including dynamic content and interactive elements, creating tamper-proof WARC archives for compliance. You can see how often mirrorweb 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.

Type

Detail

Insights

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Archivers

Robots.txt

Should I Block mirrorweb?

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 mirrorweb?

You can block mirrorweb 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.

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: mirrorweb # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/mirrorweb
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.

References

• https://mirrorweb.com/website-archiving