PerplexityBot
What is PerplexityBot?
About
PerplexityBot is the web crawler for Perplexity AI that indexes web content to power the AI search engine's real-time information retrieval and answer generation capabilities, enabling conversational search experiences. You can see how often PerplexityBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
Expected Behavior
AI search crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on many factors, and can even happen on-demand in response to a user query.
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Detail
Operated By | Perplexity |
Last Updated | 17 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Search Crawlers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block PerplexityBot?
Probably not. AI search crawlers power AI search engines, which are a useful way for users to discover your website. AI search engine assistants usually cite their sources and provide links to their results.
How Do I Block PerplexityBot?
You can block PerplexityBot 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 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot) |
# robots.txt
# This should block PerplexityBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /