Barkrowler

What is Barkrowler?

About

Barkrowler is an SEO web crawler operated by Babbar that analyzes websites to identify page popularity, topical relevance, and authority metrics for search engine optimization and competitive analysis research. You can see how often Barkrowler 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.

Type

Detail

Insights

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from SEO Crawlers

Top Visited Website Categories

Robots.txt

Should I Block Barkrowler?

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 Barkrowler?

You can block Barkrowler 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.

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Barkrowler # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/barkrowler
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.

References

• https://babbar.tech/crawler