SEO & Analytics Bots

SEO and analytics bots such as Google Analytics Bot, AhrefsBot, SEMrushBot, and MozCrawler crawl websites to collect data on site performance, backlinks, keyword rankings, and user behavior. These bots provide valuable insights that help improve search visibility and marketing strategies. However, excessive or unmanaged crawling can sometimes impact server resources. To help you understand and manage these bots effectively, we’ve compiled information on the most common SEO and analytics bots, how they work, and best practices for monitoring and controlling their activity.

Bot Name	Operator
Adagio Digital	Adagio Digital
Agency Analytics Crawler	AgencyAnalytics
AhrefsBot	Ahrefs Pte Ltd
AhrefsSiteAudit	Ahrefs
aiHitBot	Matchdeck Ltd.
alyze.com bot	Alexandre Tourette
Attracta	Attracta
Audisto Crawler	Audisto
Awario crawler	Link-Assistant.Com
Bad-Neighborhood	Michael VanDeMar
Barkrowler	Babbar.tech
BigUpData	BigUpData
BLEXBot	SEO PowerSuite
botify	Botify SAS
Brandwatch	Brandwatch (Cision)
BrightEdge Crawler	BrightEdge Technologies, Inc.
BrokenLinkCheck.com	brokenlinkcheck.com
BuiltWith crawler	BuiltWith Pty Ltd
Caliber	CaliberMind, Inc.
Chrome-Lighthouse	Google Inc.
Clearscope / ClearscopeBot	Mushi Labs / Clearscope (airSlate)
Cludo	Cludo ApS
Cocolyze bot	Cocolyze - https://cocolyze.io/ (broken link)
Cocolyzebot	Cocolyze
ContentKing	ContentKing B.V.
Critical Path CSS Generator	Jonas Ohlsson Aden
DataForSeo bot	DataForSEO OU
DataForSeoBot	DataForSEO
Dead Link Checker	Slogical Corporation
deepcrawl	Written Byte Ltd
Diffbot	Diffbot Technologies Corp.
domainsbot	DomainsBot, S.r.l.
DomainStatsBot	Domainstats International AB
DomCop Bot	DomCop
DotBot	SEOmoz, Inc.
GTmetrix	Gossamer Threads Inc.
Hypefactors crawler	Hypefactors
HypeStat	HypeStat.com
hyScore.io crawler	hyScore.io GmbH
linkdexbot	Analytics SEO Ltd t/a Authoritas
LinkTiger	LinkTiger, Inc.
Magellan	Unknown Author
MarketingMiner Bot	Marketing Miner s.r.o.
MegaIndex	ALTWeb Capital - http://altwebcapital.com/ (broken link)
MetaInspector	Jaime Iniesta
MJ12bot	Majestic-12 Ltd
monitorbacklinks.com bot	SEOptimer
Netpeak bot	Netpeak Group
online-webceo-bot	WebCEO Ltd.
Pagespeed	Alexander Muller
Pandalytics	Panda Security
PetalBot	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Prerender	Saas.group LLC
RankurBot	Rankur Inc.
rogerbot	SEOmoz, Inc.
Ryte Bot	Ryte GmbH
Schema-Markup-Validator	Schema.org
Screaming Frog SEO Spider	Screaming Frog
semaltbot	Semalt LLC
SEMrushBot	Semrush Inc
SemrushBot-BA	Semrush
SemrushBot-CT	Semrush
SemrushBot-SI	Semrush
SemrushBot-SWA	Semrush
SenutoBot	Senuto Sp. z o.o.
SeobilityBot	Seobility GmbH
SeoCherryBot	Unknown Author
seoClarity bot	Actonia, Inc.
SEOkicks-Robot	Torsten Ruckert Internetdienstleistungen
SEOlizer	Andreas Röne
SeoSiteCheckup	SEO Site Checkup
serpstatbot	Serpstat Global LTD
SERPtimizerBot	kb4dev GmbH
SISTRIX Optimizer	SISTRIX GmbH
SiteAuditBot	SecurityTrails
SiteCheckerBot	Boosta
Siteimprove.com bot	Siteimprove A/S
SiteScoreBot	sitescore.ai
SpazioDati bot	SpazioDati S.r.l.
StractBot	Mikkel Denker
TextRazor crawler	TextRazor Ltd.
UASlinkChecker	Udger s.r.o.
URLSuMaBot	GS IT-Trainingsservice UG - http://www.gs-ittc.de/ (broken link)
Wappalyzer	Elbert Alias
Web Measure	University of Michigan
wmtips.com	wmtips.com
Yandex.Metrica	Yandex LLC
Yandex.Webmaster	Yandex LLC
YellowLabTools	Gael Metais
ZoomInfo bot	Zoom Information Inc.
ZoominfoBot	ZoomInfo

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