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

Developer Helper
Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By Catchpoint
Last Updated 7 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

Singapore
Catchpoint normally visits from Singapore

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

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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?

⚠️ 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 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.

User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Windows NT 6.1; Catchpoint) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.81 Safari/537.36 
# robots.txt
# This should block Catchpoint

User-agent: Catchpoint
Disallow: /

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