Find out why bots request this file from your published site.
manifest.json is an internal file Webflow uses for site routing and configuration. It contains site data such as page paths, redirects, localization details, app-related paths, and version information.
Bots — such as search engine crawlers and AI agents — check standard file paths like /manifest.json as they crawl sites across the web. When a supported bot requests this file from your published site, the request appears in your LLM bot insights.
/manifest.json is also the conventional path for the Web App Manifest used by Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). Webflow's /manifest.json is a different, unrelated file — it doesn’t contain PWA fields like name, icons, theme_color, display, or start_url, and it is not referenced from your pages' <head>.
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Requests to /manifest.json count toward bandwidth usage.
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