What is botify?
botify's SiteCrawler analyzes website structure and content like a search engine, giving enterprise SEO teams detailed insights into how their sites are crawled and indexed. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Botify |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 11, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
botify usually performs comprehensive, link-following crawls rather than spot checks. Visit frequency may rise while a customer actively monitors your site or a related market.
botify's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Botify/1.0; +http://www.botify.com) |
How To Block botify With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block botify from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all SEO crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: botify # https://knownagents.com/agents/botify
Disallow: /Global Statistics for botify
As of August 11, 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
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
1% of top websites block botify in their robots.txt files.
Overall SEO Crawler Traffic
2.2% of all web traffic came from SEO crawlers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block botify?
Consider blocking botify only if you do not want your pages included in SEO databases. It does not influence how search engines rank you, and blocking it will not hide backlinks to your site because those are discovered on the linking sites. For context, 1% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for botify.
Does botify Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. botify is expected to follow robots.txt directives, 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 botify respects it.
Does botify Access Private Content?
No. botify can reach only public pages, and authentication prevents it from accessing private content.
Why Is botify Visiting My Website?
Your domain appears in the ranking, backlink, or competitor data maintained by botify's operator. A customer may be tracking your site, one of your competitors, or a backlink that connects another site to yours.
How Can I Tell if botify Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks botify 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 "botify". Look for comprehensive site crawls that follow internal links. Because botify does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.