What is Netvibes?
Netvibes is a web crawler operated by Netvibes, a dashboard and intelligence gathering service. The bot collects publicly available web content to aggregate and display information for users through their personalized dashboard platform. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Netvibes |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 9, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Netvibes 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.
Netvibes's User Agent
| User Agent | Netvibes (crawler; https://www.netvibes.com) |
How To Block Netvibes With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Netvibes 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: Netvibes # https://knownagents.com/agents/netvibes
Disallow: /Netvibes Global Insights
As of July 9, 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
1% of top websites block Netvibes in their robots.txt files.
Overall Intelligence Gatherer Traffic
4.6% of all web traffic came from intelligence gatherers.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by Netvibes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Netvibes?
Decide who benefits. Netvibes 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, 1% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for Netvibes.
Does Netvibes Respect Robots.txt?
Yes. Netvibes is expected to honor 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 Netvibes actually honors it.
Does Netvibes Access Private Content?
Public business information is the target. Pricing pages, product listings, and announcements are what its clients pay for. Netvibes has no special access, but assume everything you publish openly gets collected.
Why Is Netvibes Visiting My Website?
A client of Netvibes is monitoring your market, your brand, or you specifically. Expect Netvibes's visits to concentrate on pages with business value, like pricing and product pages.
How Can I Tell if Netvibes Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Netvibes 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 "Netvibes". Look for repeated visits to pricing, product, and news pages. Keep in mind that Netvibes 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.