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Pagefreezer Website Archiving

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Pagefreezer Website Archiving is a compliance Operated by Pagefreezer Software Inc..

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Assessment

Archiver

What is Pagefreezer Website Archiving?

Pagefreezer is a professional archiving service that enables organizations in highly regulated sectors, such as government, finance, and public safety, to maintain defensible records of their digital presence. The service automates the capture of dynamic website content, including complex web forms and media, to ensure that organizations remain compliant with laws like FINRA, SEC, and GDPR. By creating tamper-proof, time-stamped archives, Pagefreezer provides a reliable audit trail for legal and regulatory purposes.

Helpful — This bot performs authorized, non-disruptive archiving to help organizations meet legal and regulatory recordkeeping requirements.

Identification

Bot name

Pagefreezer Website Archiving

Operator

Pagefreezer Software Inc.

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The Pagefreezer crawler operates on behalf of specific clients who have contracted the service to maintain a historical record of their own domains. It crawls websites to generate high-fidelity snapshots that serve as official records, ensuring that updates and changes to web content are preserved for future reference. Site administrators can verify the bot's legitimacy by checking the provided contact information or the official IP whitelist published on the Pagefreezer support portal.

Block or allow Pagefreezer Website Archiving

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for PageFreezer in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Pagefreezer Website Archiving from crawling your entire site
User-agent: PageFreezer
Disallow: /

# Allow Pagefreezer Website Archiving full access
User-agent: PageFreezer
Allow: /