UptimeRobot

What is UptimeRobot?

About

UptimeRobot is UptimeRobot's monitoring bot that performs automated website uptime checks, testing site availability and response times to alert users when websites go down or experience performance issues. You can see how often UptimeRobot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers generally visit websites on direct behalf of a user who is evaluating some feature or attribute. Visits can be one-off or part of a larger crawl.

Type

Developer Helper

Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By	Uptimerobot
Last Updated	2 minutes ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

1% of top websites are blocking UptimeRobot

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Country of Origin

Germany

UptimeRobot normally visits from Germany

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

Top Visited Website Categories

Online Communities

Real Estate

Beauty and Fitness

Home and Garden

Business and Industrial

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Robots.txt

Should I Block UptimeRobot?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block UptimeRobot?

⚠️ 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 UptimeRobot 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 Mozilla/5.0+(compatible; UptimeRobot/2.0; http://www.uptimerobot.com/)

# robots.txt
# This should block UptimeRobot

User-agent: UptimeRobot
Disallow: /