page-preview-tool
What is page-preview-tool?
About
page-preview-tool is SalesViewer's web crawler that visits websites to generate page previews and enrich company information for sales and marketing intelligence services. You can see how often page-preview-tool 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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Detail
| Operated By | SalesViewer GmbH |
| Last Updated | 16 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers
Robots.txt
Should I Block page-preview-tool?
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 page-preview-tool?
You can block page-preview-tool 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: page-preview-tool # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/page-preview-tool
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.