Spectate

What is Spectate?

About

Spectate is an uptime monitoring bot that performs health checks on websites and web applications to ensure service availability and track performance metrics. You can see how often Spectate 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 Spectate
Last Updated 7 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

Unknown
Spectate has no known country of origin

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 Spectate?

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

How Do I Block Spectate?

⚠️ 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 Spectate 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.

# robots.txt
# This should block Spectate

User-agent: Spectate
Disallow: /

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