What is 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 bot is used by Silktide's platform to help organizations monitor and improve their website performance and user experience. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when SilktideBot visits your website.
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| 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 SilktideBot |
| 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 SilktideBot Visiting My Website?
Someone, most likely on your own team, configured SilktideBot 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 SilktideBot?
Only if no one on your team relies on it. SilktideBot 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 SilktideBot.
Insights for SilktideBot
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
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Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
SilktideBot Traffic
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From SilktideBot?
SilktideBot'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 SilktideBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
No. SilktideBot 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 SilktideBot Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. SilktideBot is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking SilktideBot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Not directly. SilktideBot's expected purpose is not to supply an AI search index or retrieve pages for AI-generated answers.
Does SilktideBot Access Private Content?
Only when configured with access. A team may grant SilktideBot credentials to monitor staging sites or private health endpoints. Without those credentials, it sees only public pages.
How Can I Verify a Request From SilktideBot?
Agent Analytics tracks SilktideBot visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "SilktideBot". Look for repeated checks of the same pages or endpoints at regular intervals. Because SilktideBot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
How Is SilktideBot Different From Other Silktide Agents?
Silktide operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
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