Web Light / googleweblight

Name: Web Light / googleweblight
Author: Google

Developer Tools

Verify Web Light / googleweblight 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.

[This crawler is officially retired as per Google] googleweblight is a Google fetcher used by the now-deprecated Google Web Light service, which provided simplified, faster-loading versions of webpages for slow mobile networks. It requested pages to generate lightweight, transcoded versions optimized for low-bandwidth conditions. Site owners allowed it to ensure better accessibility for users on slow connections. Since Web Light has been discontinued, activity from this user-agent is now rare or legacy in nature. Any remaining traffic is typically minimal and related to leftover systems or outdated client requests rather than active Google services. It ignored the global user agent (*) rule. RobotSense.io verifies Web Light / googleweblight using Google’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine Web Light / googleweblight traffic is identified.

This bot does not honor Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.2.1; en-us; Nexus 5 Build/JOP40D) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko; googleweblight) Chrome/38.0.1025.166 Mobile Safari/535.19

Robots.txt Configuration for Web Light / googleweblight

Robots.txt User-Agent:googleweblight

Use this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target Web Light / googleweblight.

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for Web Light / googleweblight:

User-agent: googleweblight
Allow: /

Completely Block Web Light / googleweblight

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: googleweblight
Disallow: /

Completely Allow Web Light / googleweblight

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: googleweblight
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

User-agent: googleweblight
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

User-agent: googleweblight
Disallow: /
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/

Set Crawl Delay

Limit how frequently Web Light / googleweblight can request pages (in seconds):

User-agent: googleweblight
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

Note: This bot does not officially mention about honoring Crawl-Delay rule.