What is deepcrawl?

deepcrawl is the web crawler bot operated by Lumar, an enterprise website optimization platform. It crawls websites to collect data for technical SEO analysis, site speed monitoring, and accessibility testing used by digital marketing teams to improve website performance. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.

Category

SEO Crawler
Analyzes website structure and content to identify SEO improvement opportunities

Expected Behavior

deepcrawl maps sites the way its customers' SEO tools need, following internal links to build a full picture of structure, content, and ranking signals. Expect thorough crawls rather than spot checks, with frequency rising when your site or your competitors are actively monitored in its tools.

Overview

Operated By Lumar
Expected To Follow Robots.txt Yes
Insights Last Updated July 6, 2026

Robots.txt Blocked Percentage

1%
1% of top websites are blocking deepcrawl
Learn How →

Country of Origin

Unknown
deepcrawl has no known country of origin

Robots.txt Blocking Trend

As of July 6, 2026, 1% of top websites block deepcrawl in their robots.txt files.

Overall SEO Crawler Traffic

As of July 6, 2026, 2.4% of all web traffic came from SEO crawlers.

Track SEO Crawlers Visiting Your Website
Use Agent Analytics to get realtime visibility into visits from every crawler, scraper, and AI agent.

This data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.

deepcrawl's User Agent

User Agent RIA-DeepCrawl research@example.com

Access other known user agents and IP addresses using the Enterprise API.

How To Block deepcrawl

Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block deepcrawl from accessing your entire website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.

User-agent: deepcrawl # https://knownagents.com/agents/deepcrawl
Disallow: /
Block Every SEO Crawler
⚠️ Manually adding individual robots.txt rules is not scalable. Instead, use Automatic Robots.txt.

Frequently Asked Questions

Should I Block deepcrawl?

Only if you want your own pages and outbound links out of those tools. deepcrawl collects the ranking and backlink data behind SEO tools, likely including ones you or your agency use, and it does not change how search engines rank you. Blocking it will not hide your backlink profile either, because backlinks are discovered on the sites that link to you. For comparison, 1% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for deepcrawl.

Does deepcrawl Respect Robots.txt?

Yes. deepcrawl is expected to honor robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms deepcrawl actually honors it.

Does deepcrawl Access Private Content?

Login walls stop it. deepcrawl analyzes public pages for rankings, links, and site structure.

Why Is deepcrawl Visiting My Website?

Your domain shows up in the ranking, backlink, and competitor data deepcrawl's operator sells. If anyone tracks your site or your competitors in an SEO tool, deepcrawl visits you.

How Can I Tell if deepcrawl Is Visiting My Website?

Agent Analytics tracks deepcrawl visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "deepcrawl". Look for full site crawls that follow your internal links. Keep in mind that deepcrawl doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.

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