Turnitin

What is Turnitin?

About

Turnitin crawler gathers web content to build a comprehensive database for plagiarism detection services, comparing student papers against internet content for academic integrity. You can see how often Turnitin visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Archivers visit websites on a roughly regular cadence, since snapshots are more useful when they're regularly spaced out. Popular websites will have more frequent visits since they are more likely to be queried in the historical database in the future.

Type

Archiver
Snapshots websites for historical databases

Detail

Operated By Turnitin
Last Updated 18 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

United States
Turnitin normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Archivers

Top Visited Website Categories

Pets and Animals
Sports
Arts and Entertainment
Jobs and Education
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Turnitin?

It's up to you. Digital archiving is generally done to preserve a historical record. If you don't want to be part of that record for some reason, you can block archivers.

How Do I Block Turnitin?

⚠️ 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 Turnitin 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 Turnitin (https://bit.ly/2UvnfoQ) 
# robots.txt
# This should block Turnitin

User-agent: Turnitin
Disallow: /

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