What is Freespoke?
Freespoke is a search engine crawler operated by Freespoke. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Freespoke visits your website.
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| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.0 Safari/605.1.15 Freespoke/2.12.5 (iOS) |
| Operated By | Freespoke |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Possibly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is Freespoke Visiting My Website?
Freespoke is adding new or changed pages to its search index. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or direct submission.
Should I Block Freespoke?
No, unless you want to remove your pages from that search engine. Freespoke supplies its index, so blocking it can eliminate your visibility and organic traffic there. Nearly every website should allow this category. For context, 7% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Freespoke.
How Do I Block Freespoke Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Freespoke 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: Freespoke # https://knownagents.com/agents/freespoke
Disallow: /Insights for Freespoke
As of October 29, 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
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Freespoke Traffic
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From Freespoke?
Freespoke 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.
Does Freespoke Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Freespoke 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 Freespoke respects it.
Is Freespoke Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. Freespoke is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking Freespoke Affect AI Search or Citations?
Blocking Freespoke can remove your pages from the search engine it supplies. That may also affect AI products that rely on the same index, but it does not directly control unrelated AI search services.
Does Freespoke Access Private Content?
No special access. Freespoke 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 Verify a Request From Freespoke?
Agent Analytics tracks Freespoke visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Freespoke". Look for recurring passes that revisit changed pages and discover new ones. Because Freespoke does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
How Is Freespoke Different From Other Freespoke Agents?
Freespoke operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
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