AlertSite
What is AlertSite?
About
AlertSite is SmartBear's synthetic monitoring service that uses automated probes to monitor website availability, performance, and functionality from global monitoring locations. You can see how often AlertSite 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
Detail
Operated By | Smartbear |
Last Updated | 17 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers
Robots.txt
Should I Block AlertSite?
Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.
How Do I Block AlertSite?
You can block AlertSite 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.
# robots.txt
# This should block AlertSite
User-agent: AlertSite
Disallow: /