Web Archivers

Archivers save copies of pages to preserve the history of the web.

Should you block web archivers?

Archived copies can be read outside your paywall or ads. Decide whether long term preservation matters more for your content.

Of the 2 web archivers with a stated policy, 2 follow robots.txt and 0 do not. Bots that ignore robots.txt can only be stopped by user agent or IP at your server, CDN or WAF.

7 web archivers

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