Screaming Frog SEO Spider

What is Screaming Frog SEO Spider?

About

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is an SEO crawler operated by Screaming Frog. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Screaming Frog SEO Spider visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including the search keywords it ranks for, and how many other websites link to it.

Type

SEO Crawler
Discovers search engine optimization insights

Detail

Operated By Screaming Frog
Last Updated 4 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

1%
1% of top websites are blocking Screaming Frog SEO Spider
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Country of Origin

United States
Screaming Frog SEO Spider normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from SEO Crawlers

Top Visited Website Categories

Beauty and Fitness
Jobs and Education
Finance
Business and Industrial
Health
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Screaming Frog SEO Spider?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an SEO service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

How Do I Block Screaming Frog SEO Spider?

⚠️ 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 Screaming Frog SEO Spider 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 Screaming Frog SEO Spider/22.2 
# robots.txt
# This should block Screaming Frog SEO Spider

User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Disallow: /

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