What is Pro Sitemaps?
Pro-Sitemaps is a web crawler that automatically scans websites to generate XML sitemaps, analyze site structure, detect broken links, and provide SEO insights for search engine optimization and website maintenance. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Pro-Sitemaps |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 11, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Pro Sitemaps 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.
Pro Sitemaps's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Pro Sitemaps Generator; pro-sitemaps.com) Gecko Pro-Sitemaps/1.0 |
How To Block Pro Sitemaps With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Pro Sitemaps 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: Pro Sitemaps # https://knownagents.com/agents/pro-sitemaps
Disallow: /Global Statistics for Pro Sitemaps
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
0% of top websites block Pro Sitemaps 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 Pro Sitemaps?
Consider blocking Pro Sitemaps 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. Almost none of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Pro Sitemaps.
Does Pro Sitemaps Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. Pro Sitemaps 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 Pro Sitemaps respects it.
Does Pro Sitemaps Access Private Content?
No. Pro Sitemaps can reach only public pages, and authentication prevents it from accessing private content.
Why Is Pro Sitemaps Visiting My Website?
Your domain appears in the ranking, backlink, or competitor data maintained by Pro Sitemaps'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 Pro Sitemaps Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Pro Sitemaps 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 "Pro Sitemaps". Look for comprehensive site crawls that follow internal links. Because Pro Sitemaps does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.