URL Control

What is URL Control?

About

URL Control is an uncategorized agent. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often URL Control visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Behavior will vary depending on whether this agent is a search engine crawler, data scraper, archiver, one-off fetcher, etc.

Type

Uncategorized

Not currently assigned a type

Detail

Last Updated

14 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking URL Control

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Country of Origin

United States

URL Control normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Uncategorized Agents

Top Visited Website Categories

Health

Food and Drink

Business and Industrial

Home and Garden

News

How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?

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Robots.txt

Should I Block URL Control?

It's difficult to say without a type. Its purposes could either be good or bad for your website, depending on what it is.

How Do I Block URL Control?

You can block URL Control 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.

How Do I Block All Uncategorized Agents?

Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new uncategorized agents automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

User Agent String Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8862

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: URL Control # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/url-control
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.