Overview
BuiltWith is an analytics used for Automated website access, content retrieval, or integration activity associated with the listed operator.
Its primary user-agent pattern is BuiltWith; related patterns include BuiltWith bot; BuiltWith technology profiler.
BuiltWith is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
BuiltWith should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
- User-Agent
BuiltWith- Aliases
- BuiltWith bot; BuiltWith technology profiler
- HTTP Agent Examples
BuiltWith- Robots.txt Token
BuiltWith- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `BuiltWith` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Analytics
- Kind
- Analytics
- Family
- BuiltWith
- Purpose
- technology-profiling
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- BuiltWith is used for Automated website access, content retrieval, or integration activity associated with the listed operator.
- Detection Notes
- BuiltWith traffic is primarily detected by the `BuiltWith` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `BuiltWith bot; BuiltWith technology profiler`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- BuiltWith has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.