SlickBot
What is SlickBot?
About
SlickBot is Slickstream's web crawler that indexes customer websites to power engagement features like site search, content recommendations, and personalization for improved visitor experience on publisher sites. You can see how often SlickBot 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.
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Detail
| Operated By | Slickstream |
| Last Updated | 5 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers
Robots.txt
Should I Block SlickBot?
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 SlickBot?
You can block SlickBot 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 SlickBot
User-agent: SlickBot
Disallow: /