YandexFavicons

Yandex · Search engines · json

User-agent: YandexFavicons
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenYandexFavicons
User-agent containsYandexFavicons
OperatorYandex
CategorySearch engines
robots.txtignores the * group; obeys rules named for its own token
Verify byreverse DNS

What it is

Downloads your favicon so Yandex can show it beside your result. Documented as not taking the general robots.txt rules into account.

What blocking it costs you

Your results in Yandex lose their icon. Cosmetic, and a * rule will not achieve it anyway.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexFavicons/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)

Allow it instead

User-agent: YandexFavicons
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility