Googlebot

Google crawler, purpose: search.

The Googlebot record on Rattlesnakes By Mail is the full published file on Googlebot, a crawler from Google. Each fact on the Googlebot record is a dated claim with a verbatim quote from Google, a source URL, a verification method and a confidence. Sections run in a fixed order: Identity, Claims, Observations, Changes, Questions, Notes.

487

requests to this site from Googlebot, 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-29

95%

of requests verified against Google's published identity

Googlebot is Google's crawler. The chart counts the pages it read on this site, day by day.

On a typical day the site logs about 16 requests from Googlebot; the busiest day was 2026-10-29 with 42 requests, 3 times the typical day.

Requests per day from Googlebot, 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-29. Source: this site's own request logs, each request checked against the vendor's published identity. Method: /method.

Identity

vendor: Google
kind: crawler
purpose: search
ua_token: Googlebot
robots_token: Googlebot
ip_list_url: https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json
docs_url: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-common-crawlers
status: active

Common crawler for Google Search, Discover, Images, Video and News.

Claims

Field	Value	Method	Confidence
observed_verified_request_ratio_census	`0.991`	observed_here	high
cites_sources	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
honours_crawl_delay	`no`	vendor_doc	medium
publishes_ip_list	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
purpose_documented	`search`	vendor_doc	high
reads_llms_txt	`no`	vendor_doc	high
respects_robots_txt	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
separate_search_and_training_tokens	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
user_agent_string_full	`Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)`	vendor_doc	high
verifiable_by_rdns	`yes`	vendor_doc	high

Observations

Requests per day from Googlebot, 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-29. Googlebot made 487 requests in this window.

requests, last 30 days: 489
verified requests, last 30 days: 467
verified share, last 30 days: 96%
daily rows recorded: 30

Changes

Date	Claim	Kind	New value
2026-09-17	observed_verified_request_ratio_census	new	0.991
2026-09-14	reads_llms_txt	new	no
2026-09-13	respects_robots_txt	new	yes
2026-09-13	honours_crawl_delay	new	no
2026-09-13	publishes_ip_list	new	yes
2026-09-13	verifiable_by_rdns	new	yes
2026-09-13	purpose_documented	new	search
2026-09-13	separate_search_and_training_tokens	new	yes
2026-09-13	cites_sources	new	yes
2026-09-13	user_agent_string_full	new	Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

Notes

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