Hotjar

What is Hotjar?

About

Hotjar analyzes website user behavior through heatmaps, session recordings, surveys, and feedback tools to help optimize user experience and conversions. You can see how often Hotjar 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 Hotjar
Last Updated 14 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

Ireland
Hotjar normally visits from Ireland

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 Hotjar?

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

How Do I Block Hotjar?

⚠️ 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 Hotjar 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 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Hotjar Version/15.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 
# robots.txt
# This should block Hotjar

User-agent: Hotjar
Disallow: /

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