What is EzoicBot?
Direct Answer: EzoicBot is a web crawler by Ezoic Inc, designed to extract information about internet, search engines, and websites to help publishers understand site performance and search engine ranking.
EzoicBot is a generic name for Ezoic's web crawler, which comes in two types: desktop and mobile crawlers. It extracts valuable information about how the internet, search engines, and websites work together, helping publishers understand site performance and search engine ranking. EzoicBot is designed to be polite, following robots.txt directives and crawling sites at a rate of no more than once every few seconds on average.
User-Agent Identification
The following user-agent strings identify EzoicBot in your live traffic data:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0; Pixel 2 Build/OPD3.170816.012) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.121 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; EzLynx/0.1; +http://www.ezoic.com/bot.html)
robots.txt Rules for EzoicBot
Respects robots.txt: Yes
Use the following robots.txt rules to control EzoicBot access:
# Block EzoicBot
User-agent: EzoicBot
Disallow: /
# Allow EzoicBot
User-agent: EzoicBot
Allow: /Robots.txt is a directive, not a barrier
Ezoic Inc states that EzoicBot respects robots.txt. However, configuration mistakes, caching delays, and edge cases mean your directives may not always be followed as expected. Live traffic verification confirms whether EzoicBot actually obeys your rules in practice.
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Crawl Behavior
Frequency:No More Than Once Every Few Seconds On Average
Request Pattern:Simulates User Requests From Desktop And Mobile Browsers
Official Documentation Quotes
"EzoicBot is our web crawler designed to extract valuable information about how the internet, search engines, and websites all work together."
Crawl Activity Index
Relative crawl activity for EzoicBot 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 EzoicBot traffic?
Control third-party crawl impact on your server. EzoicBot crawls your site to build Ezoic Inc's SEO database. While useful for competitive analysis, these crawlers can consume significant server resources on large sites.
Identify who's analyzing your site. EzoicBot visits reveal when competitors or agencies are running audits on your domain.
Manage crawl priority. If EzoicBot 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 EzoicBot 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 EzoicBot worth the server resources?
EzoicBot crawls your site to build Ezoic Inc'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 — Ezoic Inc's data may power tools you use yourself. The question is whether EzoicBot's crawl volume is proportionate to its value.
What Can AI See It measures
Requests per day and bandwidth consumed by EzoicBot
What % of your total bot traffic is EzoicBot?
Scrapers spoofing EzoicBot's user-agent string
Log Verification
To verify EzoicBot 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 Ezoic Inc)
- 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 EzoicBot:
- crawl frequency details
- IP verification method
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 EzoicBot's user-agent
Official Documentation
View Official EzoicBot Documentation →
Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.