DuckDuckBot Crawler Simulator
Test how DuckDuckGo's crawler indexes your website. Optimize for the privacy-focused search engine and DuckAssist AI.
Test your site with DuckDuckBot
Enter your URL to see how DuckDuckBot views your website.
What is DuckDuckBot?
DuckDuckBot is DuckDuckGo's web crawler that indexes content for their privacy-focused search engine. DuckDuckGo also has DuckAssistBot for their AI-powered DuckAssist feature. With growing privacy concerns, DuckDuckGo's user base continues to expand, making optimization worthwhile.
Why Allow DuckDuckBot?
DuckDuckBot robots.txt Configuration
Control how DuckDuckBot accesses your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain.
Allow DuckDuckBot
# Allow DuckDuckGo crawlers User-agent: DuckDuckBot Allow: / User-agent: DuckAssistBot Allow: /
Block DuckDuckBot
# Block DuckDuckGo crawlers User-agent: DuckDuckBot Disallow: / User-agent: DuckAssistBot Disallow: /
User-Agent String: DuckDuckBot/1.0; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html)
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