user-triggered fetch

A request made because a person asked the assistant about a specific URL. Volume reflects user curiosity rather than crawl policy, so it is a poor proxy for how well a site is indexed.

Crawlers and access

Who is fetching, whether they are who they claim, and what your rules actually permit.

retrieval crawler · verified crawler · forged crawler identity · unverifiable · robots.txt · user-agent group · AI opt-out · Content-Signal · crawl budget · cloaking · challenge page at 200 · uniform refusal · nonexistent-path control · blocked render resource · off-host redirect · homepage refused · FCrDNS · Crawler trap · Conditional request · ASN blocking · operator feed · residential proxy · Google-Extended · Google-Agent · GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot · ClaudeBot vs Claude-User · PerplexityBot vs Perplexity-User · CCBot · Bytespider · agentic traffic · crawler classification

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