UptimeRobot

What is UptimeRobot?

About

UptimeRobot is UptimeRobot's monitoring bot that performs automated website uptime checks, testing site availability and response times to alert users when websites go down or experience performance issues. You can see how often UptimeRobot 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 Uptimerobot
Last Updated 16 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

1%
1% of top websites are blocking UptimeRobot
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Country of Origin

Germany
UptimeRobot normally visits from Germany

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

Top Visited Website Categories

Online Communities
Real Estate
Home and Garden
Beauty and Fitness
Autos and Vehicles
How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
Use the WordPress plugin, Node.js package, or API to get started in seconds.
Set Up Agent Analytics

Robots.txt

Should I Block UptimeRobot?

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

How Do I Block UptimeRobot?

You can block UptimeRobot 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.

How Do I Block All Developer Helpers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new developer helpers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt
User Agent String Mozilla/5.0+(compatible; UptimeRobot/2.0; http://www.uptimerobot.com/) 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: UptimeRobot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/uptimerobot
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.