What is NewsNow?
NewsNow is a web crawler that aggregates news headlines from thousands of sources across the web to provide comprehensive, real-time news coverage through the NewsNow news aggregation service. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | NewsNowUK |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 11, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
NewsNow 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 directives more reliably than most other bots.
NewsNow's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 NewsNow/1.1 |
How To Block NewsNow With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block NewsNow from accessing your entire 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: NewsNow # https://knownagents.com/agents/newsnow
Disallow: /Global Statistics for NewsNow
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
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
4% of top websites block NewsNow in their robots.txt files.
Overall Search Engine Crawler Traffic
15.8% of all web traffic came from search engine crawlers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block NewsNow?
No, unless you want to remove your pages from that search engine. NewsNow supplies its index, so blocking it can eliminate your visibility and organic traffic there. Nearly every website should allow this category. For context, 4% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for NewsNow.
Does NewsNow Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. NewsNow 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 NewsNow respects it.
Does NewsNow Access Private Content?
No special access. NewsNow can reach only content available to anonymous visitors and does not sign in. Make sure sensitive content is not public by mistake.
Why Is NewsNow Visiting My Website?
NewsNow is adding new or changed pages to its search index. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or direct submission.
How Can I Tell if NewsNow Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks NewsNow 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 "NewsNow". Look for recurring passes that revisit changed pages and discover new ones. Because NewsNow does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.