Googlebot
Verified search engineSearch indexing crawler
Identification
- User-Agent token
- Googlebot
- Published IP ranges
- 315
Requests claiming this User-Agent are verified against the operator's published ranges.
robots.txt behaviour
- Honours robots.txt
- Yes
- Honours crawl-delay
- No
- Honours Allow rules
- Yes
- Reads Sitemap directives
- Yes
Observed activity
- Distinct IPs observed
- 619
- TLS fingerprints observed
- 4
- First seen
- 2026-05-21
- Last seen
- 2026-08-09
Aggregated across traffic monitored by urlcap. Updated continuously.
Where it crawls from
Top countries (by distinct IPs)
US
619
Top networks
Unknown network
619
Verify Googlebot on your own traffic
One API call checks a visitor's IP against published ranges, reverse DNS and TLS fingerprints — so spoofed User-Agents don't fool you.