rogerbot

What is rogerbot?

About

rogerbot is a developer helper operated by Moz. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often rogerbot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Type

Developer Helper
Used by developers to test website functionality

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers are tools that monitor, test, or analyze websites on behalf of developers and site operators. They perform tasks like uptime monitoring, performance testing, and accessibility checks. Traffic patterns vary widely. Some tools make regular scheduled checks (such as uptime monitors pinging every few minutes), while others perform one-time scans triggered by a human. These helpers typically access specific pages or endpoints rather than crawling entire sites, though comprehensive audit tools may scan multiple pages.

Detail

Operated By Moz
Last Updated 14 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

2%
2% of top websites are blocking rogerbot
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Country of Origin

United States
rogerbot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
Use the WordPress plugin, Node.js package, or API to get started in seconds.

Robots.txt

Should I Block rogerbot?

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

How Do I Block rogerbot?

You can block rogerbot 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.

How Do I Block All Developer Helpers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new developer helpers automatically.
User Agent String rogerbot/1.2 (https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-procedures/what-is-rogerbot, rogerbot-crawler+aardwolf-crawler-261@moz.com)
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: rogerbot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/rogerbot
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.

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