What is Silktide?
Silktide is a website quality management platform bot that automatically scans and monitors websites for accessibility, content quality, SEO, user experience, and data privacy issues. It provides comprehensive website analysis to help teams improve their web presence. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Silktide visits your website.
Category
| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.69 Safari/537.36 Silktide |
| Operated By | Silktide |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | Scheduled or manual configuration |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Not directly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | No |
Why Is Silktide Visiting My Website?
Someone, most likely on your own team, configured Silktide to check your site. Uptime monitors, performance testers, and audit tools visit only the sites or endpoints they are told to watch.
Should I Block Silktide?
Only if no one on your team relies on it. Silktide may support uptime monitoring, performance tests, or audits. Blocking it without checking first can silently disrupt those workflows. For context, 7% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Silktide.
Insights for Silktide
As of October 31, 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
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Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From Silktide?
Silktide's traffic often follows fixed intervals like a cron job. Activity may consist of short recurring checks or occasional intensive bursts, but it usually remains limited to a specific set of pages or endpoints.
Does Silktide Follow Robots.txt Rules?
No. Silktide is not expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule only communicates your preference. Enforce the block with firewall or server rules, then use Agent Analytics to verify that its requests stop.
Is Silktide Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. Silktide is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking Silktide Affect AI Search or Citations?
Not directly. Silktide's expected purpose is not to supply an AI search index or retrieve pages for AI-generated answers.
Does Silktide Access Private Content?
Only when configured with access. A team may grant Silktide credentials to monitor staging sites or private health endpoints. Without those credentials, it sees only public pages.
How Can I Verify a Request From Silktide?
Agent Analytics tracks Silktide visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Silktide". Look for repeated checks of the same pages or endpoints at regular intervals. Because Silktide does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
How Is Silktide Different From Other Silktide Agents?
Silktide operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
- SilktideBot: SilktideBot is a website scanning bot operated by Silktide that crawls websites to analyze and test various aspects of web accessibility, quality, and compliance. This bo…