PWABuilderHttpAgent

What is PWABuilderHttpAgent?

About

PWABuilderHttpAgent analyzes websites for Progressive Web App capabilities, checking for web manifests, service workers, and other PWA features to help developers build and publish progressive web apps. You can see how often PWABuilderHttpAgent 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 Microsoft
Last Updated 17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

Unknown
PWABuilderHttpAgent has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block PWABuilderHttpAgent?

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

How Do I Block PWABuilderHttpAgent?

⚠️ 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 PWABuilderHttpAgent 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 PWABuilderHttpAgent

User-agent: PWABuilderHttpAgent
Disallow: /

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