What is EcoVadisSustainabilityBot?
EcoVadisSustainabilityBot is a web crawler operated by EcoVadis, a company that provides sustainability ratings and intelligence for businesses and their supply chains. The bot collects information on behalf of business partners to assess environmental, social, and governance performance of companies. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | EcoVadis |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 12, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
EcoVadisSustainabilityBot usually returns to a small set of pages rather than crawling an entire site. Visits may follow an hourly, daily, or weekly schedule, while websites its clients do not monitor may never encounter it.
EcoVadisSustainabilityBot's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; EcoVadisSustainabilityBot/1.0; +https://www.ecovadis.com; Crawling on behalf of one of your business partners.) |
How To Block EcoVadisSustainabilityBot With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block EcoVadisSustainabilityBot 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: EcoVadisSustainabilityBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/ecovadissustainabilitybot
Disallow: /Global Statistics for EcoVadisSustainabilityBot
As of August 12, 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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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
0% of top websites block EcoVadisSustainabilityBot in their robots.txt files.
Overall Intelligence Gatherer Traffic
3.6% of all web traffic came from intelligence gatherers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block EcoVadisSustainabilityBot?
If you run ads, confirm EcoVadisSustainabilityBot's purpose before blocking it. Some intelligence gatherers measure ad placements or evaluate pages for brand safety, and blocking those agents can interfere with advertising systems. If this one serves a different purpose, weigh any research visibility against sharing business or page-level data with third parties. Almost none of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for EcoVadisSustainabilityBot.
Does EcoVadisSustainabilityBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. EcoVadisSustainabilityBot 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 EcoVadisSustainabilityBot respects it.
Does EcoVadisSustainabilityBot Access Private Content?
No special access. EcoVadisSustainabilityBot can read publicly available pages but cannot bypass authentication. Assume anything you publish openly may be collected.
Why Is EcoVadisSustainabilityBot Visiting My Website?
A client of EcoVadis may be gathering competitive intelligence, measuring advertisements, or evaluating content for brand safety. The pages requested reflect that client's objective.
How Can I Tell if EcoVadisSustainabilityBot Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks EcoVadisSustainabilityBot 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 "EcoVadisSustainabilityBot". Look for repeated requests to the same small group of commercial or ad-supported pages. Because EcoVadisSustainabilityBot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.