NEW RUNTIME

SEO & backlink crawlers

DotBot

Mozmedium confidence

Moz's web crawler that gathers link and site data for Moz's link index and SEO tools (UA references opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot).

Dossier

Operator
Moz
Documentation
None published
robots.txt token
DotBot
Feeds
SEO backlink index
Follows robots.txt
Not documentedThird-party directories say Moz states it respects robots.txt; official Moz page could not be opened.
How to verify
No published method
Names in our logs
dotbot
Researched
23 Oct 2026

Observed on New Runtime

Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…

Requests
338
Days active
25 / 93
First seen
23 Sept 2026
Last seen
23 Oct 2026
Regularother_bot

Daily requests across the observed window, square-root scale.

Identity check claimed vs verified

  • No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.

What it reads crawler journeys · current window

  • The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.

Sources

  1. knownagents.comknownagents.com/agents/moz-dotbot
Who read this page?Machine requests, hidden until opened

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