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User Agent

A string identifying the browser, bot, or application accessing a website, used to detect AI crawlers.

Understanding User Agent

User agents identify who is requesting your content - browsers, search crawlers, or AI bots like GPTBot or ClaudeBot. Analyzing user agents helps track AI crawler activity and allows server-side optimization specific to AI systems. You can use user agents to serve AI-optimized content or track AI-driven traffic.

See Also

AI Crawlers

Automated bots used by AI companies to index web content for training and retrieval in AI systems.

Robots.txt

A file that tells web crawlers and AI bots which pages they can and cannot access on your website.

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