Hatena

What is Hatena?

About

Hatena is a Japanese web service bot that automatically visits web pages to gather information for its social bookmarking, blogging, and content aggregation platforms. You can see how often Hatena visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By Hatena
Last Updated 7 minutes ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Hatena
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Country of Origin

Japan
Hatena normally visits from Japan

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

News
Computers and Electronics
Food and Drink
Online Communities
Business and Industrial
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Hatena?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block Hatena?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Hatena or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent String Hatena::Russia::Crawler/0.01 
# robots.txt
# This should block Hatena

User-agent: Hatena
Disallow: /

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