Perplexity-User
Perplexity-User is Perplexity’s crawler used for the visits Perplexity makes to a page when a user asks it something.
What it means for your site
It opens a page when someone asks the assistant to. If you block it, the assistant can’t read your site when your customers ask it to.
Should you allow or block it?
Allow it. These visits happen because a customer asked the assistant to read your site.
How to allow or block it
To allow it (in the robots.txt file at the root of your site):
User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: /
To block it:
User-agent: Perplexity-User Disallow: /
Anyone can put a crawler’s name in their user agent. To confirm a visit is genuine, check the IP address against the list the company publishes. Blocks at the CDN or firewall don’t show up in robots.txt.
How to know if it visits your site
The robots.txt checker shows whether this crawler is allowed. With a Neural Ranks account, the AI crawlers page in your dashboard shows how often each crawler visits your site and which pages it reads.
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AI engines that rely on this crawler: Perplexity
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