Overview
YandexSitelinks is a monitoring bot from Yandex used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is YandexSitelinks; related patterns include YandexSitelinks Yandex robot; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexSitelinks; Dyatel; +http://yandex.com/bots).
YandexSitelinks is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
YandexSitelinks is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
YandexSitelinks can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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YandexSitelinks - Aliases
- YandexSitelinks Yandex robot
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexSitelinks; Dyatel; +http://yandex.com/bots) - Robots Token
- YandexSitelinks
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Verify YandexSitelinks by matching `YandexSitelinks` to Yandex evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- Yandex
- Purpose
- Monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- YandexSitelinks is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- YandexSitelinks traffic is primarily detected by the `YandexSitelinks` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `YandexSitelinks Yandex robot`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexSitelinks; Dyatel; +http://yandex.com/bots)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Yandex infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- YandexSitelinks has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: YandexSitelinks Disallow: /
Relationships
- Operator
- Yandex Checked 2026-05-20
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.