What is cludo.com bot?
cludo.com bot is a crawler operated by Cludo, a site search platform that provides search and discovery solutions for websites. The bot likely crawls and indexes website content to power Cludo's internal site search functionality for their customers. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when cludo.com bot visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Cludo |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | September 14, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
cludo.com bot follows an algorithmic schedule shaped by your site's popularity, update cadence, and domain authority. It generally spreads requests across recurring crawl passes, throttles itself to limit server load, and respects crawl rules more reliably than most other bots.
cludo.com bot's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; cludo.com bot) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.7778.98 Safari/537.36 |
How To Block cludo.com bot With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block cludo.com bot from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all search engine crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: cludo.com bot # https://knownagents.com/agents/cludo-com-bot
Disallow: /Insights for cludo.com bot
As of September 14, 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 Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
6% of top websites block cludo.com bot in their robots.txts.
Overall Search Engine Crawler Traffic
14.8% of all web traffic came from search engine crawlers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block cludo.com bot?
No, unless you want to remove your pages from that search engine. cludo.com bot supplies its index, so blocking it can eliminate your visibility and organic traffic there. Nearly every website should allow this category. For context, 6% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for cludo.com bot.
Does cludo.com bot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. cludo.com bot is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether cludo.com bot respects it.
Does cludo.com bot Access Private Content?
No special access. cludo.com bot can reach only content available to anonymous visitors and does not sign in. Make sure sensitive content is not public by mistake.
How Can I Tell if cludo.com bot Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks cludo.com bot visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "cludo.com bot". Look for recurring passes that revisit changed pages and discover new ones. Because cludo.com bot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
Why Is cludo.com bot Visiting My Website?
cludo.com bot is adding new or changed pages to its search index. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or direct submission.