What is Google-InspectionTool?
Google-InspectionTool powers Search Console's URL Inspection tool and Rich Results Test, crawling pages to validate indexability, structured data markup, and search feature compatibility on user request. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
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Expected Behavior
Google-InspectionTool's pattern depends on who pointed it at you. Continuous monitoring services check daily or even hourly, while a one time assessment sweeps once and disappears. Expect requests aimed at login pages, admin paths, APIs, and configuration files, because exposed ones are what scanners exist to find.
Overview
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| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 7, 2026 |
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
As of July 7, 2026, 3% of top websites block Google-InspectionTool in their robots.txt files.
Overall Security Scanner Traffic
As of July 7, 2026, 0.0% of all web traffic came from security scanners.
Top Visited Website Categories
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.
Google-InspectionTool's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.224 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-InspectionTool/1.0) |
Access other known user agents and IP addresses using the Enterprise API.
How To Block Google-InspectionTool
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Google-InspectionTool from accessing your entire website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool # https://knownagents.com/agents/google-inspectiontool
Disallow: /Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Google-InspectionTool?
Not unless you already run your own scanning and want cleaner logs. Google-InspectionTool checks websites for exposed vulnerabilities, and some scanning services report what they find to site owners for free. For comparison, 3% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for Google-InspectionTool.
Does Google-InspectionTool Respect Robots.txt?
Yes. Google-InspectionTool 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 Google-InspectionTool actually honors it.
Does Google-InspectionTool Access Private Content?
It probes for private content deliberately. Login pages, admin panels, and API endpoints are exactly what Google-InspectionTool tests, because exposed ones are what it exists to find. Probing is not the same as getting in, but expect requests to sensitive paths in your logs.
Why Is Google-InspectionTool Visiting My Website?
Google-InspectionTool is scanning your site for vulnerabilities, either as part of a sweep across the whole internet or because someone requested an assessment of your domain. Recurring visits usually mean a monitoring service has you on its list.
How Can I Tell if Google-InspectionTool Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Google-InspectionTool 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 "Google-InspectionTool". Look for probes of login, admin, and API paths. Keep in mind that Google-InspectionTool 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.