URL Control
What is URL Control?
About
URL Control is an uncategorized agent. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often URL Control visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
Expected Behavior
Behavior will vary depending on whether this agent is a search engine crawler, data scraper, archiver, one-off fetcher, etc.
Type
Uncategorized
Not currently assigned a type
Detail
| Last Updated | 20 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
United States
URL Control normally visits from the United States
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Uncategorized Agents
Top Visited Website Categories
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Robots.txt
Should I Block URL Control?
It's difficult to say without a type. Its purposes could either be good or bad for your website, depending on what it is.
How Do I Block URL Control?
⚠️ 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.
You can block URL Control 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 | Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8862 |
# robots.txt
# This should block URL Control
User-agent: URL Control
Disallow: /