HostTracker

What is HostTracker?

About

HostTracker is a website monitoring bot that checks website availability and performance from 265+ monitoring locations worldwide. It monitors websites 24/7 for issues like downtime, slow loading, and broken links. You can see how often HostTracker 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 HostTracker
Last Updated 3 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

United States
HostTracker 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 HostTracker?

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

How Do I Block HostTracker?

⚠️ 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 HostTracker 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;HostTracker/2.0;+http://www.host-tracker.com/) 
# robots.txt
# This should block HostTracker

User-agent: HostTracker
Disallow: /

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