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

Developer Helper
Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By Uptime
Last Updated 5 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

United States
Uptime normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

Top Visited Website Categories

Law and Government
Business and Industrial
Shopping
Home and Garden
Computers and Electronics
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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?

⚠️ 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.

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
# robots.txt
# This should block Uptime

User-agent: Uptime
Disallow: /

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