What is botify?
botify's SiteCrawler analyzes website structure and content like a search engine, giving enterprise SEO teams detailed insights into how their sites are crawled and indexed. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when botify visits your website.
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| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Botify/1.0; +http://www.botify.com) |
| Operated By | Botify |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | Customer-configured crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Not directly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is botify Visiting My Website?
Your domain appears in the ranking, backlink, or competitor data maintained by botify's operator. A customer may be tracking your site, one of your competitors, or a backlink that connects another site to yours.
Should I Block botify?
Consider blocking botify only if you do not want your pages included in SEO databases. It does not influence how search engines rank you, and blocking it will not hide backlinks to your site because those are discovered on the linking sites. For context, 7% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for botify.
How Do I Block botify Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block botify from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all SEO crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: botify # https://knownagents.com/agents/botify
Disallow: /Insights for botify
As of October 30, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Compliance
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Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From botify?
botify usually performs comprehensive, link-following crawls rather than spot checks. Visit frequency may rise while a customer actively monitors your site or a related market.
Does botify Follow Robots.txt Rules?
botify is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether botify respects it.
Is botify Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. botify is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking botify Affect AI Search or Citations?
Not directly. botify's expected purpose is not to supply an AI search index or retrieve pages for AI-generated answers.
Does botify Access Private Content?
No. botify can reach only public pages, and authentication prevents it from accessing private content.
How Can I Verify a Request From botify?
Agent Analytics tracks botify visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "botify". Look for comprehensive site crawls that follow internal links. Because botify does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.