Uptime
What is Uptime?
About
Uptime.com monitoring probe conducts HTTP requests to test website availability, performance, and response times from global locations, providing real-time uptime monitoring and alerting for web services. You can see how often Uptime 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 | Uptime |
| Last Updated | 16 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block Uptime?
Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.
How Do I Block Uptime?
You can block Uptime 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 | GoDaddy Uptime Monitor |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: Uptime # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/uptime
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.