What is YaK?
YaK is a web crawler operated by Linkfluence, a company that provides social media intelligence and analytics services. The bot collects web content for market research, brand monitoring, and consumer insights to help organizations understand online conversations and digital trends. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Linkfluence |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 31, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
YaK visits with a specific set of goals. Expect focused, repeated requests to the pages its clients monitor, like pricing, product listings, and announcements, on schedules ranging from hourly to weekly. Sites outside a client's watchlist may never see it at all.
YaK's User Agent
| User Agent | YaK |
How To Block YaK With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block YaK from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all intelligence gatherers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: YaK # https://knownagents.com/agents/yak
Disallow: /Global Insights for YaK
As of July 31, 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
3% of top websites block YaK in their robots.txt files.
Overall Intelligence Gatherer Traffic
4.5% of all web traffic came from intelligence gatherers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block YaK?
Decide who benefits. YaK collects pricing, product, and brand data for its operator's clients, and those clients can include your competitors. Allow it if visibility in market research matters to you. Block it if you would rather not hand competitors structured data about your business. For comparison, 3% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for YaK.
Does YaK Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. YaK 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 YaK actually follows it.
Does YaK Access Private Content?
Public business information is the target. Pricing pages, product listings, and announcements are what its clients pay for. YaK has no special access, but assume everything you publish openly gets collected.
Why Is YaK Visiting My Website?
A client of Linkfluence is monitoring your market, your brand, or you specifically. Expect YaK's visits to concentrate on pages with business value, like pricing and product pages.
How Can I Tell if YaK Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks YaK 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 "YaK". Look for repeated visits to pricing, product, and news pages. Keep in mind that YaK 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.