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

Intelligence Gatherer
Searches for useful insights

Detail

Operated By Quantcast
Last Updated 17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

United States
Quantcastbot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

Top Visited Website Categories

Games
Food and Drink
Sports
Hobbies and Leisure
News
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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.

How Do I Block All Intelligence Gatherers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new intelligence gatherers automatically.
User Agent String Quantcastbot/2.0 (+http://www.quantcast.com/bot)
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Quantcastbot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/quantcastbot
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.