Protopage

What is Protopage?

About

Protopage is an RSS reader and web portal service that crawls and indexes RSS news feeds from various sources to create personalized dashboard start pages and aggregated content for users. You can see how often Protopage visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By Protopage Ltd
Last Updated 14 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Protopage
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Country of Origin

Canada
Protopage normally visits from Canada

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Books and Literature
News
Business and Industrial
Hobbies and Leisure
Arts and Entertainment
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Protopage?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block Protopage?

⚠️ 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 Protopage 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 Protopage/3.0 (http://www.protopage.com) 
# robots.txt
# This should block Protopage

User-agent: Protopage
Disallow: /

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