What is TinEye?
TinEye is a search engine crawler operated by TinEye. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | TinEye |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 12, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
TinEye crawls on a schedule set by algorithms, not a calendar. Expect visit frequency to track your site's popularity, how often your content changes, and your domain authority. It throttles itself to avoid loading your server and follows crawl rules better than almost any other category of bot.
TinEye's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 TinEye/1.0 (via http://www.tineye.com/) |
How To Block TinEye With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block TinEye from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all search engine crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: TinEye # https://knownagents.com/agents/tineye
Disallow: /Global Insights for TinEye
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
0% of top websites block TinEye in their robots.txt files.
Overall Search Engine Crawler Traffic
7.5% of all web traffic came from search engine crawlers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block TinEye?
No, unless you want your pages out of search results. TinEye feeds a search engine index, and blocking it erases your visibility and organic traffic from that engine. This is the one category almost every website should allow. Almost none of the top websites we track have robots.txt rules for TinEye right now.
Does TinEye Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. TinEye 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 TinEye actually follows it.
Does TinEye Access Private Content?
No. TinEye indexes public pages only and does not sign in anywhere. Watch for accidentally public content though, because anything reachable without a login can end up in search results.
Why Is TinEye Visiting My Website?
TinEye is keeping its search index current. Links, sitemaps, or direct submission brought it to your site, and it comes back at a rate tuned to how often your content changes and how popular your site is.
How Can I Tell if TinEye Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks TinEye 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 "TinEye". Look for steady recurring visits spread across your site. Keep in mind that TinEye 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.