LinkWalker

Last updated a day ago.

What is LinkWalker?

About

LinkWalker is an intelligence gatherer operated by Fortra. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.

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Detail

Operator Fortra

Type

Intelligence Gatherer
Searches for useful insights

Expected Behavior

The behavior of intelligence gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.

Insights

LinkWalker's Activity on Your Website

Half of your traffic probably comes from artificial agents, and there are more of them every day. Track their activity with the API or WordPress plugin.

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Other Websites

1%
of top websites are currently blocking LinkWalker in some way
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Access Control

Should I Block LinkWalker?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

Using Robots.txt

User Agent Token Description
LinkWalker Should match instances of LinkWalker

You can block LinkWalker or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This should block LinkWalker

User-agent: LinkWalker
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can use the API or Wordpress plugin to keep your robots.txt updated with the latest known AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.

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