What is What10Bot?
What10Bot crawls public web pages to build the index for What10's independent search engine. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when What10Bot visits your website.
Overview
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | September 24, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
What10Bot follows an algorithmic schedule shaped by your site's popularity, update cadence, and domain authority. It generally spreads requests across recurring crawl passes, throttles itself to limit server load, and respects crawl rules more reliably than most other bots.
How To Block What10Bot With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block What10Bot from accessing your 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: What10Bot # https://knownagents.com/agents/what10bot
Disallow: /Insights for What10Bot
As of September 24, 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 Blocked Percentage
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Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block What10Bot?
No, unless you want to remove your pages from that search engine. What10Bot supplies its index, so blocking it can eliminate your visibility and organic traffic there. Nearly every website should allow this category. Almost none of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for What10Bot.
Does What10Bot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. What10Bot is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether What10Bot respects it.
Does What10Bot Access Private Content?
No special access. What10Bot can reach only content available to anonymous visitors and does not sign in. Make sure sensitive content is not public by mistake.
How Can I Tell if What10Bot Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks What10Bot visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "What10Bot". Look for recurring passes that revisit changed pages and discover new ones. Because What10Bot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
Why Is What10Bot Visiting My Website?
What10Bot is adding new or changed pages to its search index. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or direct submission.