Catchpoint

What is Catchpoint?

About

Catchpoint is a synthetic monitoring agent that tests website performance, availability, and functionality from global monitoring locations as part of Catchpoint's Internet Performance Monitoring platform. You can see how often Catchpoint 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

Insights

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

Robots.txt

Should I Block Catchpoint?

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

How Do I Block Catchpoint?

You can block Catchpoint 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.

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Catchpoint # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/catchpoint
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

References

• https://catchpoint.com/synthetic-monitoring