What is Mojeek?
Direct Answer: MojeekBot is a web crawler for the Mojeek search engine, operated by Mojeek.
MojeekBot is the web crawler for the Mojeek search engine. It is designed to crawl and index web content while being considerate of webmasters and site owners. The bot may make mistakes, and users are encouraged to provide feedback if issues arise.
User-Agent Identification
The following user-agent strings identify Mojeek in your live traffic data:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MojeekBot/0.6; +https://www.mojeek.com/bot.html)
robots.txt Rules for Mojeek
Respects robots.txt: Yes
Use the following robots.txt rules to control Mojeek access:
# Block Mojeek
User-agent: MojeekBot
Disallow: /
# Allow Mojeek
User-agent: MojeekBot
Allow: /Robots.txt is a directive, not a barrier
Mojeek states that Mojeek 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 Mojeek actually obeys your rules in practice.
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Crawl Behavior
Frequency:Continuous, With A Limit Of One Request Per Second
Request Pattern:Requests Pages While Obeying Robots.Txt And Robot Exclusion Standard
Official Documentation Quotes
"MojeekBot is the web crawler for the Mojeek search engine."
Crawl Activity Index
Relative crawl activity for Mojeek 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 | 88.0 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | 82.7 |
| Mar 28, 2026 | 83.1 |
| Mar 29, 2026 | 81.8 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | 87.3 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 90.2 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | 88.8 |
Source: Cloudflare Radar
Why track Mojeek traffic?
Measure what Mojeek gives back. Mojeek crawls thousands of your pages — but how much traffic does Mojeek actually send in return? Track referral visits from Mojeek's search products relative to crawl volume.
Monitor crawl budget and indexation health. Mojeek determines which of your pages appear in Mojeek's search results. Tracking its crawl patterns reveals how often your key pages are visited, what gets ignored, and where crawl budget is wasted.
Detect crawl anomalies early. A sudden drop in Mojeek activity can signal indexation problems — before they show up as organic traffic losses.
Catch 4XX and 5XX errors before they hurt rankings. If Mojeek hits broken pages or server errors during crawling, those URLs may be dropped from the index. Early detection in your logs lets you fix the issue before it impacts your organic visibility.
Validate that your robots.txt rules are enforced. Configuring robots.txt is one thing — confirming that Mojeek actually respects your directives is another. Live traffic validation is the only way to verify.
Why live traffic verification instead of Search Console? Search Console shows what Mojeek tells you. Live traffic verification shows what actually happened — including AI-related crawling that Search Console doesn't report.
Read: Live traffic verification vs Search Console for crawl monitoring →Log Verification
To verify Mojeek 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 Mojeek)
- Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
- Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available
IP Verification: Mojeek provides official IP verification via Reverse DNS and forward DNS lookup. View verification instructions →
Verify IP address by checking if it resolves to a name within the mojeek.com domain and vice versa
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 Mojeek:
- ai-training-capable
- high-volume
- deprecated
- user-initiated
- verified-ips method details
Monitor Mojeek alongside 500+ other bots
Track crawl health, detect anomalies, and measure how AI features are changing your referral traffic — all from your live traffic data.
- Crawl frequency, coverage, and error monitoring for Mojeek
- Compare traditional organic referrals vs AI-generated referrals
- Detect fake Mojeek traffic (user-agent spoofing)
Measure business impact from Mojeek
Crawl activity directly impacts organic visibility. The question is: is Mojeek crawling the right pages at the right frequency?
- Crawl coverage: which paths and page types Mojeek is actually crawling
- Crawl freshness: how recently Mojeek visited key URLs
- Health: response code distribution (2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx) with alerts when failed crawls spike
- Referral tracking: Mojeek takes — measure what Mojeek gives back. Track actual visits arriving from Mojeek's products to your site.
Based on your live traffic data and analytics — not synthetic prompt tests.
Official Documentation
View Official Mojeek Documentation →
Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.