Purpose: Images. Crawls images rather than text.
Crawls for images rather than text, building image datasets. The only agent in the panel that no site blocked partially in this period — sites that block it block it outright, fitting a crawler whose value is the whole image corpus rather than particular pages.
6.83%
of the panel names this token in robots.txt and disallows it, for the week of 2026-10-05.
How sites treat this token
| Stance | Domains | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| FullBlock | 68 | Every path is disallowed for this token. |
| PartialBlock | 0 | Some paths are disallowed for this token; others are not. |
| Allowed | 3 | The token is named and explicitly allowed. |
| Unmentioned | 924 | The file never names this token. This is not consent — the site may still close it off with a blanket rule for every crawler. |
ImagesiftBot's three-year history
A site in the historical panel first named and disallowed this token in 2024-02; its most recent reading is 8.75%.