Watchful
What is Watchful?
About
Watchful is a developer helper operated by Watchful LLC. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Watchful 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.
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Detail
Operated By | Watchful LLC |
Last Updated | 7 hours ago |
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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers
Robots.txt
Should I Block Watchful?
Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.
How Do I Block Watchful?
You can block Watchful 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 Watchful
User-agent: Watchful
Disallow: /