What is AddThis?
Direct Answer: The AddThis bot, operated by AddThis, crawls websites to gather and update content for its website marketing tools.
The AddThis bot crawls websites to gather and update content for its website marketing tools. These tools include features like social sharing buttons and content recommendation widgets. The bot's primary function is to support AddThis's services by collecting and updating web content.
User-Agent Identification
The following user-agent strings identify AddThis in your live traffic data:
AddThis.com (http://support.addthis.com/)
robots.txt Rules for AddThis
Respects robots.txt: No
This bot does not commit to following robots.txt
AddThis does not officially follow robots.txt directives. The only reliable way to control access is through server-side blocking (IP filtering, user-agent rules in your web server config) combined with log monitoring to verify effectiveness.
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Crawl Behavior
Frequency:Not Documented
Request Pattern:Not Documented
Crawl Activity Index
Relative crawl activity for AddThis over the past 28 days. Higher values indicate increased crawling intensity compared to the period baseline.
View recent activity data (last 7 days)
| Date | Activity Index |
|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2026 | 0.0 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | 0.0 |
| Mar 28, 2026 | 0.0 |
| Mar 29, 2026 | 0.0 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | 0.0 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 0.0 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | 0.0 |
Source: Cloudflare Radar
Why track AddThis traffic?
Control third-party crawl impact on your server. AddThis crawls your site to build AddThis's SEO database. While useful for competitive analysis, these crawlers can consume significant server resources on large sites.
Identify who's analyzing your site. AddThis visits reveal when competitors or agencies are running audits on your domain.
Manage crawl priority. If AddThis is consuming crawl budget you'd rather allocate to search engines, you can throttle or block it based on measured volume.
Surface 4XX and 5XX errors before search engines find them. If AddThis reports broken pages or server errors in its crawl data, you can fix those issues proactively — before search engine crawlers encounter them and your rankings suffer.
Is AddThis worth the server resources?
AddThis crawls your site to build AddThis's SEO database. Unlike search engines, this crawler doesn't send you any referral traffic — it feeds a third-party tool.
That's not necessarily a problem — AddThis's data may power tools you use yourself. The question is whether AddThis's crawl volume is proportionate to its value.
What Can AI See It measures
Requests per day and bandwidth consumed by AddThis
What % of your total bot traffic is AddThis?
Scrapers spoofing AddThis's user-agent string
Log Verification
To verify AddThis traffic in your live traffic data:
- Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
- Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by AddThis)
- Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
- Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available
Note: Observed behavior in production environments may differ from official documentation. Live traffic monitoring provides the only reliable verification of actual bot behavior.
Undocumented Information
The following information is not officially documented for AddThis:
- crawl frequency
- request pattern
- IP verification
- JavaScript rendering
See which SEO tools are crawling your site — and how much they cost you
- Identify third-party crawlers consuming your server resources
- Separate SEO tool traffic from search engine crawls
- Detect fake bots spoofing AddThis's user-agent
Official Documentation
View Official AddThis Documentation →
Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.