Perplexity-User
by Perplexity
AI answers · User-triggered
Visits pages on behalf of Perplexity users to answer their questions and cite sources.
An assistant fetches your page live because a person asked a question. These visits can turn into real traffic through citations.
Control it with robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers read robots.txt before crawling. To block Perplexity-User on your whole site:
robots.txt
User-agent: Perplexity-User Disallow: /
Blocking AI search and answer crawlers can also remove your pages from AI answers and citations. Weigh traffic from AI assistants before blocking them. Official documentation: docs.perplexity.ai.