Google-Safety
What is Google-Safety?
About
Google-Safety is a specialized security crawler that performs abuse-specific scanning to detect malware and other security threats on publicly posted links across Google properties, operating independently of robots.txt restrictions. You can see how often Google-Safety visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.
Expected Behavior
Security scanners do not follow a predictable schedule when visiting websites. Their scans can be one-time, occasional, or recurring depending on the purpose of the scanner and the organization's security practices. The frequency and depth of their scans can vary based on factors like the visibility of the site on the public internet, past scan results, and inclusion in external threat intelligence feeds.
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| Last Updated | 17 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Security Scanners
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block Google-Safety?
Probably not. Security scanners can be beneficial, especially if they're configured to report issues back to you.
How Do I Block Google-Safety?
You can block Google-Safety 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 | Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Safety; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: Google-Safety # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/google-safety
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.