Googlebot Image

Name: Googlebot Image
Author: Google

Verify Googlebot Image IP Address

Verify if an IP address truly belongs to Google, using official verification methods. Enter both IP address and User-Agent from your logs for the most accurate bot verification.

Googlebot-Image is Google’s dedicated crawler for discovering and indexing images for Google Images and other visual search features. The bot fetches image files, logos, and favicons and reads surrounding context—alt text, captions, structured data, and page content—to understand relevance and quality. Traffic is usually lightweight and focused on assets rather than full pages. Its role is to keep Google’s image index accurate, fresh, and aligned with user search intent. RobotSense.io verifies Googlebot Image using Google’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine Googlebot Image traffic is identified.

This bot officially honors Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

Googlebot-Image/1.0

Robots.txt Configuration for Googlebot Image

Robots.txt User-Agent:Googlebot-Image

Use this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target Googlebot Image.

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for Googlebot Image:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

Completely Block Googlebot Image

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

Completely Allow Googlebot Image

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/

Set Crawl Delay

Limit how frequently Googlebot Image can request pages (in seconds):

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

Note: This bot officially honors the Crawl-delay directive.