Google-PageRenderer
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What it does
Google-PageRenderer usually makes a single request within seconds of a URL being shared, without crawling further. Traffic rises and falls with sharing activity, so a widely circulated link can produce a sharp burst of fetches.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Google-PageRenderer
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Google-PageRenderer:
Allow full access
User-agent: Google-PageRenderer
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Google-PageRenderer
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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