What is Funnelback?
Funnelback is a search engine crawler operated by Squiz, a digital experience platform company. It indexes web content to power enterprise search functionality, leveraging ranking signals to deliver relevant search results for organizations using Squiz's search solutions. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Funnelback visits your website.
Category
| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Funnelback) |
| Operated By | Squiz |
| 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 Funnelback Visiting My Website?
Funnelback 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 Funnelback?
No, unless you want to remove your pages from that search engine. Funnelback 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 Funnelback.
How Do I Block Funnelback Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Funnelback 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: Funnelback # https://knownagents.com/agents/funnelback
Disallow: /Insights for Funnelback
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
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Funnelback Traffic
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From Funnelback?
Funnelback 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 Funnelback Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Funnelback 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 Funnelback respects it.
Is Funnelback Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. Funnelback is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking Funnelback Affect AI Search or Citations?
Blocking Funnelback 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 Funnelback Access Private Content?
No special access. Funnelback 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 Funnelback?
Agent Analytics tracks Funnelback visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Funnelback". Look for recurring passes that revisit changed pages and discover new ones. Because Funnelback does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.