GoogleInspectionTool is a bot in the security scanners category, operated by Google.
Google-InspectionTool is the crawler used by Search testing tools such as the Rich Result Test and URL inspection in Search Console. Apart from the user agent and user agent token, it mimics Googlebot.
Security scanners probe sites for vulnerabilities, certificates and exposed services. Some are research projects, some are vendors you hired. Allow your own scanners and block the rest at the WAF.
GoogleInspectionTool identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.5672.92 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-InspectionTool/1.0;)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.
Share of GoogleInspectionTool requests to sites protected by Transfon Security in the 7 days to 27 October 2026.
| United States | 66% |
| India | 5% |
| The Netherlands | 4% |
| South Korea | 4% |
| Mexico | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 4% |
| Comcast Cable Communications, LLC AS7922 | 17% |
| Google LLC AS15169 | 16% |
| HostPapa AS36352 | 11% |
| Datacamp Limited AS212238 | 4% |
| AT&T Enterprises, LLC AS7018 | 4% |
We have not confirmed whether GoogleInspectionTool 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.
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool group, GoogleInspectionTool ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.Google-InspectionTool from GoogleInspectionTool's user agent; check Google's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
Allow GoogleInspectionTool if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersGoogleInspectionTool is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow GoogleInspectionTool only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf GoogleInspectionTool is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows GoogleInspectionTool 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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GoogleInspectionTool is a bot in the security scanners category, operated by Google. Google-InspectionTool is the crawler used by Search testing tools such as the Rich Result Test and URL inspection in Search Console. Apart from the user agent and user agent token, it mimics Googlebot.
We have not confirmed whether GoogleInspectionTool 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.
Add "User-agent: Google-InspectionTool" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "Google-InspectionTool" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so GoogleInspectionTool may not follow it, and anyone can send GoogleInspectionTool's user agent, so a fake GoogleInspectionTool ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Security scanners probe sites for vulnerabilities, certificates and exposed services. Some are research projects, some are vendors you hired. Allow your own scanners and block the rest at the WAF.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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