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YandexFavicons

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Verify YandexFavicons IP Address

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

YandexFavicons is a Yandex crawler dedicated to fetching website favicon images for use across Yandex Search results, browsers, and related services. It retrieves small icon files such as favicon.ico or declared alternative icons in HTML markup. This crawler does not index page content or influence search rankings; its role is purely visual enrichment. Crawl activity is minimal and typically triggered when Yandex discovers a new site, detects favicon changes, or refreshes visual assets to ensure accurate and up-to-date representation in Yandex interfaces. It ignores the global robots.txt user agent (*) rule. RobotSense.io verifies YandexFavicons using Yandex’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine YandexFavicons traffic is identified.

This bot does not honor Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexFavicons/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
Example user agent strings for YandexFavicons

Robots.txt Configuration for YandexFavicons

Robots.txt User-Agent:YandexFavicons

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

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for YandexFavicons:

User-agent: YandexFavicons
Allow: /

Completely Block YandexFavicons

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: YandexFavicons
Disallow: /

Completely Allow YandexFavicons

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: YandexFavicons
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

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

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

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

Set Crawl Delay

Limit how frequently YandexFavicons can request pages (in seconds):

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

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