NetcraftSurveyAgent

Last updated 13 hours ago.

NetcraftSurveyAgent is an intelligence gatherer operated by Netcraft. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.

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Detail

Operator

Netcraft

Type

Intelligence Gatherer

Searches for useful insights

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.

Insights

NetcraftSurveyAgent's Activity on Your Website

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Other Websites

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Access Control

Should I Block NetcraftSurveyAgent?

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.

Using Robots.txt

User Agent Token	Description
`NetcraftSurveyAgent`	Should match instances of NetcraftSurveyAgent

You can block NetcraftSurveyAgent or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This should block NetcraftSurveyAgent

User-agent: NetcraftSurveyAgent
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can use the API or Wordpress plugin to keep your robots.txt updated with the latest known AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.

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