Google Favicon
recommended: allowGoogle Favicon is a search engine crawler operated by Google.
What it does
Google Favicon 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.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Google Favicon
Example user-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.75 Safari/537.36 Google Faviconrobots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Google Favicon:
Allow full access
User-agent: Google Favicon
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Google Favicon
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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