Bot intelligence record

Google Adsense: Mediapartners-Google

Review first

Use the Mediapartners-Google identifier to separate Google uptime, accessibility, or site-health monitoring traffic from normal visitor requests in server logs.

Monitoring Monitoring Verified Bot Confidence: Medium Verified: Yes robots.txt: Yes

User-Agent Pattern

Google
Mediapartners-Google

Robots.txt Snippet

Copy-ready 
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Disallow: /

Handling Guidance

Depends

Use this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.

Uptime checks, managed website monitoring, synthetic tests, accessibility scans, or site-health reviews.

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
Google
Family
Google
Type
Monitoring
Purpose
Monitoring
Identity type
Verified Bot
Confidence
Medium
Last verified
2026-04-01
Last checked
2026-04-30
Source type
Verified Directory
Spoofing risk
User-agent strings can be spoofed. For allow-listing or low-friction rules, pair the published identifier with operator documentation or cryptographic verification when available.

Notes

Google Adsense: Mediapartners-Google is listed in the Botcrawl directory as a monitoring bot from Google. The primary identifier for log review is Mediapartners-Google.

Identification

  • User-agent pattern: Mediapartners-Google
  • Family: Google
  • Type: Monitoring
  • Kind: Monitor

Common use

Uptime checks, managed website monitoring, synthetic tests, accessibility scans, or site-health reviews.

Verification and handling

Confirm the user-agent against server logs and use published operator documentation, IP ranges, reverse DNS, or other trust signals when available.

Directory guidance marks the risk level as Neutral and the blocking decision as Depends. Do not rely on the user-agent string alone because user-agent strings can be copied or spoofed.

Robots.txt handling: Yes.

Evidence and Source

  • Validate the identifying user-agent or signature against the operator documentation before creating hard allow rules.
  • Uptime checks, managed website monitoring, synthetic tests, accessibility scans, or site-health reviews.
  • User-agent strings can be spoofed. For allow-listing or low-friction rules, pair the published identifier with operator documentation or cryptographic verification when available.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943?hl=en

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