What is Clickagy?

Clickagy is a bot in the advertising and marketing bots category, operated by Clickagy.

Bot name
Clickagy
Operator
Clickagy
Type
Bot
Respects robots.txt
Not confirmed
robots.txt user agent
Clickagy
Signs requests (Web Bot Auth)
No

About Clickagy

The Clickagy Intelligence Bot is an ad verification bot for Clickagy.

Advertising bots review landing pages, check ad placements and classify pages for brand safety and contextual targeting. Blocking ad verification bots can stop your ads or your inventory from serving, so allow the ones your ad partners use.

Clickagy user agent

Clickagy identifies itself with this user agent string:

  • Clickagy Intelligence Bot v2

Anyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.

How to block Clickagy in robots.txt

We have not confirmed whether Clickagy follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.

Block Clickagy from the whole site

User-agent: Clickagy
Disallow: /

Block Clickagy from some folders

User-agent: Clickagy
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /search

Allow Clickagy only on some folders

User-agent: Clickagy
Allow: /blog/
Disallow: /

Allow Clickagy and block other crawlers

User-agent: Clickagy
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Things to know

  • Each host needs its own file. Rules on www.example.com do not apply to shop.example.com.
  • A crawler obeys only the most specific group that names it. Once you add a User-agent: Clickagy group, Clickagy ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.
  • The user agent name is not case sensitive. We take Clickagy from Clickagy's user agent; check Clickagy's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.
  • Crawlers cache robots.txt, so changes can take up to a day to apply. Disallow stops crawling but does not remove pages already collected or indexed.

Limits of robots.txt

  1. Clickagy may not follow the rule. robots.txt is a request that nothing enforces, and we have not confirmed that Clickagy follows it. Check your logs after adding a rule.
  2. The user agent could be fake. robots.txt matches the name a request claims. Anyone can send Clickagy's user agent, and a scraper using it is not bound by Clickagy's robots.txt policy. Only checking the source network tells a real Clickagy from a fake one.

Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.

Who should care about Clickagy

Publishers

Ad verification and contextual crawlers like Clickagy can decide whether your pages get demand. Blocking the ones your partners use can lower fill rates.

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Media buyers and advertisers

Clickagy checks pages for ad platforms. Its visits to landing pages are not users, so exclude them from conversion data.

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E-commerce

Ad platforms send crawlers like Clickagy to check product landing pages. Keep it allowed so ads are not disapproved, and out of analytics.

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SaaS and APIs

Allow Clickagy on landing pages linked from your ads, and keep it off the app.

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Block Clickagy with Transfon Security

robots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows Clickagy by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.

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Control Clickagy on your site

  • See every Clickagy visit and the pages it reads
  • Spot bots that fake trusted crawler names
  • Block, allow or rate limit Clickagy with one rule
  • Works with or without robots.txt support

Frequently asked questions

What is Clickagy?

Clickagy is a bot in the advertising and marketing bots category, operated by Clickagy. The Clickagy Intelligence Bot is an ad verification bot for Clickagy.

Does Clickagy respect robots.txt?

We have not confirmed whether Clickagy follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.

How do I block Clickagy?

Add "User-agent: Clickagy" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "Clickagy Intelligence Bot v2" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.

Is robots.txt enough to block Clickagy?

No. robots.txt is voluntary, so Clickagy may not follow it, and anyone can send Clickagy's user agent, so a fake Clickagy ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.

Should I block Clickagy?

Advertising bots review landing pages, check ad placements and classify pages for brand safety and contextual targeting. Blocking ad verification bots can stop your ads or your inventory from serving, so allow the ones your ad partners use.

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