Trellis-Services
What is Trellis-Services?
About
Trellis-Services is a website optimization bot that generates critical CSS and performs performance analysis for WordPress sites using the Trellis framework and associated services. You can see how often Trellis-Services 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
Detail
| Operated By | Mediavine |
| Last Updated | 15 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers
Robots.txt
Should I Block Trellis-Services?
Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.
How Do I Block Trellis-Services?
You can block Trellis-Services 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.
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: Trellis-Services # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/trellis-services
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.