Silktide

What is Silktide?

About

Silktide is a website quality management platform bot that automatically scans and monitors websites for accessibility, content quality, SEO, user experience, and data privacy issues. It provides comprehensive website analysis to help teams improve their web presence. You can see how often Silktide 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 Silktide
Last Updated 18 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

Unknown
Silktide 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 Silktide?

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

How Do I Block Silktide?

⚠️ 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 Silktide 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 Silktide

User-agent: Silktide
Disallow: /

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