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Google

Googlebot

About this crawler

Indexes the web for Google Search, including AI-related search features.

Usually means: This operator is discovering or refreshing the page so it can show up in its search results.

User agent

Googlebot

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 Googlebot.

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: Googlebot
Disallow: /

See when Googlebot
hits your site

Trfyx records Googlebot on the server and keeps it out of your human visitor counts.

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