parsely.com

What is parsely.com?

About

parsely.com is Parse.ly's web crawler that collects content analytics data from websites to provide content performance insights and audience engagement metrics. You can see how often parsely.com visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers generally visit websites on direct behalf of a user who is evaluating some feature or attribute. Visits can be one-off or part of a larger crawl.

Type

Developer Helper
Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By Parse.ly
Last Updated 1 day ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking parsely.com
Learn How →

Country of Origin

Unknown
parsely.com has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

See All Global Bot & LLM Insights →

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

Get These Insights for Your Website
Use the WordPress plugin, Node.js package, or API to get started in seconds.
Set Up Agent Analytics

Robots.txt

Should I Block parsely.com?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block parsely.com?

⚠️ 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 parsely.com 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.

# robots.txt
# This should block parsely.com

User-agent: parsely.com
Disallow: /

References