Googlebot-Image
Googlebot-Image is assigned to the Search category by BotScope. Detection is based on the user-agent string. Current pattern:
Googlebot-Image
Indexes images for Google Images. Respects User-agent: Googlebot-Image in robots.txt. Important crawler for image SEO — focus on alt tags, imageobject schema and fast CDN delivery.
Search engine crawlers index publicly available content for their results. They typically fetch /robots.txt first and respect crawl-delay and Disallow rules. High crawl frequency usually correlates with good visibility in those search results.
BotScope maps Googlebot-Image requests onto your session timeline — you spot bursts, can filter them per path, and compare against other bots in the same category.
robots.txt directive for Googlebot-Image
If you don't want Googlebot-Image to crawl your site, add the following block to your /robots.txt. This works only for bots that honour robots.txt — malicious crawlers ignore it.
User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /
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