What is netarkivindsamling?
netarkivindsamling is a web crawler operated by the Royal Danish Library that collects Danish internet content according to the Danish Legal Deposit Act for preservation and research purposes. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Netarkivet |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 31, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
netarkivindsamling returns on a cadence to capture full snapshots of your pages for the historical record. Expect complete page fetches rather than metadata checks, at a frequency that rises with your site's popularity and how often your content changes.
netarkivindsamling's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; heritrix/3.10.0 +https://www.kb.dk/netarkivindsamling/) |
How To Block netarkivindsamling With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block netarkivindsamling from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all archivers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: netarkivindsamling # https://knownagents.com/agents/netarkivindsamling
Disallow: /Global Insights for netarkivindsamling
As of July 31, 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
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
0% of top websites block netarkivindsamling in their robots.txt files.
Overall Archiver Traffic
0.1% of all web traffic came from archivers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block netarkivindsamling?
Almost never. netarkivindsamling preserves snapshots of your pages so the record survives redesigns, migrations, and dead links. Blocking only stops new captures. Snapshots that already exist stay public until you ask the archive itself to remove them. Almost none of the top websites we track have robots.txt rules for netarkivindsamling right now.
Does netarkivindsamling Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. netarkivindsamling 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 netarkivindsamling actually follows it.
Does netarkivindsamling Access Private Content?
It archives only what any anonymous visitor can see. Anything public at crawl time can stay retrievable in netarkivindsamling's archive long after you take it down.
Why Is netarkivindsamling Visiting My Website?
netarkivindsamling is preserving your pages as part of the historical record. Visits recur on a schedule so the archive can capture how your content changes over time.
How Can I Tell if netarkivindsamling Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks netarkivindsamling 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 "netarkivindsamling". Look for periodic full page captures that recur on a schedule. Keep in mind that netarkivindsamling 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.