NetcraftSurveyAgent

What is NetcraftSurveyAgent?

About

NetcraftSurveyAgent is an intelligence gatherer operated by Netcraft. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often NetcraftSurveyAgent 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	Netcraft
Last Updated	8 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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Country of Origin

Ireland

NetcraftSurveyAgent normally visits from Ireland

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

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Robots.txt

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.

How Do I Block NetcraftSurveyAgent?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block NetcraftSurveyAgent 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 (compatible; NetcraftSurveyAgent/1.0; +info\@netcraft.com)

# robots.txt
# This should block NetcraftSurveyAgent

User-agent: NetcraftSurveyAgent
Disallow: /