Quantcastbot
What is Quantcastbot?
About
Quantcastbot is Quantcast's web crawler used for advertisement quality assurance and analyzing page content to build Interest-Based Audiences for targeted advertising and audience measurement services. You can see how often Quantcastbot 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.
Type
Detail
| Operated By | Quantcast |
| Last Updated | 10 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block Quantcastbot?
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 Quantcastbot?
You can block Quantcastbot 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 | Quantcastbot/2.0 (+http://www.quantcast.com/bot) |
# robots.txt
# This should block Quantcastbot
User-agent: Quantcastbot
Disallow: /