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.
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Detail
| Operated By | Screaming Frog |
| Last Updated | 16 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from SEO Crawlers
Top Visited Website Categories
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?
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 |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/screaming-frog-seo-spider
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.