Crawler directory
About this crawler
Fetches a URL when someone inspects it in Google’s webmaster tools.
Usually means: This operator is discovering or refreshing the page so it can show up in its search results.
User agent
Google-InspectionTool
Trfyx matches these as user-agent tokens, not full browser strings. Providers may add surrounding version or product text.
How Trfyx matches
Matched from the user-agent token
Trfyx reads the request on the server, because these crawlers ask for HTML without running your analytics script.
User agent
Request user-agent contains Google-InspectionTool.
Server fetch
Recorded in middleware, not the browser script.
robots.txt
The published name to allow or disallow.
Sample robots.txt
robots.txt
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
Disallow: /See when Google-InspectionTool
hits your site
Trfyx records Google-InspectionTool on the server and keeps it out of your human visitor counts.
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