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.

Type

Developer Helper

Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By	Watchful LLC
Last Updated	17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking Watchful

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Country of Origin

Unknown

Watchful has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?

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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.

How Do I Block All Developer Helpers?

Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new developer helpers automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Watchful # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/watchful
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.