Storebot-Google
What is Storebot-Google?
About
Storebot-Google is Google's web crawler that analyzes e-commerce websites, product pages, and checkout processes using machine learning to gather information on pricing, delivery, payments and shopping experiences. You can see how often Storebot-Google 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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| 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 Storebot-Google?
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 Storebot-Google?
You can block Storebot-Google 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 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; Storebot-Google/1.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36 |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: Storebot-Google # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/storebot-google
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.