W3C-checklink
What is W3C-checklink?
About
W3C-checklink crawls websites to validate links and anchors, checking for broken links, redirects, and link conformance to web standards. You can see how often W3C-checklink 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
Detail
Operated By | World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) |
Last Updated | 20 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers
Robots.txt
Should I Block W3C-checklink?
Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.
How Do I Block W3C-checklink?
You can block W3C-checklink 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 | W3C-checklink/4.3 [4.42] libwww-perl/5.820 |
# robots.txt
# This should block W3C-checklink
User-agent: W3C-checklink
Disallow: /