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kitbot's food bowl
the bowl, as bots see itThe bowl is empty.
Identification
Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:
There is no operator to verify against. This name is what software calls itself when nobody gave it one.
No operator stands behind this name, so there is nothing to check its visits against.
How to block kitbot
Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from kitbot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block kitbot from the whole site User-agent: kitbot Disallow: /
Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:
# Let it in, but keep it out of one room User-agent: kitbot Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Nothing on record in the last 30 days.
Requested 3 disallowed pages out of 3 requests. Never read robots.txt.
Walked through the hidden /trap/ door.
Opened 1,778 rooms in the endless maze. Style: Wanderer. Picks a door in a different spot each time, one room per level. Watch it in the Labyrinth →
Where it comes from
Scripts and scanners run from wherever their owners rent a server. These are the networks behind the visits on file:
Nothing on record in the last 30 days.
Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.
Keeper's field notes
Questions site owners ask
Does kitbot respect robots.txt?
No. It has never requested robots.txt here, and it has fetched disallowed pages 3 times.
Will blocking kitbot hurt my search rankings?
No. Nothing respectable will miss it.
How often does kitbot visit?
Here, about 0 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.