Statabot
What is Statabot?
About
Statabot is StataCorp's web crawler that searches for and indexes Stata statistical software table of contents files (stata.toc) for software package management. You can see how often Statabot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
Expected Behavior
Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.
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Detail
Operated By | StataCorp LLC |
Last Updated | 17 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Robots.txt
Should I Block Statabot?
Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.
How Do I Block Statabot?
You can block Statabot 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 Statabot
User-agent: Statabot
Disallow: /