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

Detail

Insights

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

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?

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.

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Ghost Inspector # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/ghost-inspector
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://ghostinspector.com/