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.
Category
| Example User Agent | What10Bot/2.0 (+https://what10.com/bot) |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Possibly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
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.
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. For context, 7% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for What10Bot.
How Do I Block What10Bot Using 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 November 9, 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 What10Bot?
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.
Does What10Bot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
What10Bot is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether What10Bot respects it.
Is What10Bot Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. What10Bot is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking What10Bot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Blocking What10Bot can remove your pages from the search engine it supplies. That may also affect AI products that rely on the same index, but it does not directly control unrelated AI search services.
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 Verify a Request From What10Bot?
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.