Ghost Inspector

What is Ghost Inspector?

About

Ghost Inspector is an automated browser testing bot that crawls websites and web applications to perform end-to-end testing, monitoring functionality and detecting bugs through scheduled test runs. You can see how often Ghost Inspector 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 Ghost Inspector
Last Updated 10 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Ghost Inspector
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Country of Origin

United States
Ghost Inspector normally visits from the United States

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 Ghost Inspector?

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

How Do I Block Ghost Inspector?

⚠️ 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 Ghost Inspector 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 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0 Safari/537.36 Ghost Inspector (687ea24c2c245b961d95d8ef) 
# robots.txt
# This should block Ghost Inspector

User-agent: Ghost Inspector
Disallow: /

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