WARDBot

What is WARDBot?

About

WARDBot is a website monitoring crawler that tracks URL status codes and monitors the availability of web pages to help users ensure their websites remain accessible and functional. You can see how often WARDBot 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 WEBSPARK
Last Updated 3 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

Unknown
WARDBot has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block WARDBot?

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

How Do I Block WARDBot?

⚠️ 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.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block WARDBot 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 WARDBot

User-agent: WARDBot
Disallow: /