What is Mediapartners-Google?
Mediapartners-Google crawls website content to analyze page context and keywords for Google AdSense ad targeting, determining appropriate advertisements to display based on site content and user demographics. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 12, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Mediapartners-Google visits with a shopping list. Expect focused, repeated requests to the pages its clients monitor, like pricing, product listings, and announcements, on schedules ranging from hourly to weekly. Sites outside a client's watchlist may never see it at all.
Mediapartners-Google's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko, Mediapartners-Google) Chrome/89.0.4389.130 Safari/537.36 |
How To Block Mediapartners-Google With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Mediapartners-Google from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all intelligence gatherers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google # https://knownagents.com/agents/mediapartners-google
Disallow: /Global Insights for Mediapartners-Google
As of July 12, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
6% of top websites block Mediapartners-Google in their robots.txt files.
Overall Intelligence Gatherer Traffic
4.3% of all web traffic came from intelligence gatherers.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by Mediapartners-Google.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Mediapartners-Google?
Decide who benefits. Mediapartners-Google collects pricing, product, and brand data for its operator's clients, and those clients can include your competitors. Allow it if visibility in market research matters to you. Block it if you would rather not hand competitors structured data about your business. For comparison, 6% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for Mediapartners-Google.
Does Mediapartners-Google Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. Mediapartners-Google is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms Mediapartners-Google actually follows it.
Does Mediapartners-Google Access Private Content?
Public business information is the target. Pricing pages, product listings, and announcements are what its clients pay for. Mediapartners-Google has no special access, but assume everything you publish openly gets collected.
Why Is Mediapartners-Google Visiting My Website?
A client of Google is monitoring your market, your brand, or you specifically. Expect Mediapartners-Google's visits to concentrate on pages with business value, like pricing and product pages.
How Can I Tell if Mediapartners-Google Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Mediapartners-Google visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "Mediapartners-Google". Look for repeated visits to pricing, product, and news pages. Keep in mind that Mediapartners-Google doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.