WPUmbrella

What is WPUmbrella?

About

WPUmbrella is a monitoring bot that fetches data from WordPress websites to provide site management, security monitoring, and maintenance services through the WP Umbrella platform. You can see how often WPUmbrella 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 WP Umbrella
Last Updated 18 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

France
WPUmbrella normally visits from France

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 WPUmbrella?

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

How Do I Block WPUmbrella?

⚠️ 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 WPUmbrella 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 WPUmbrella+https://wp-umbrella.com/communication-with-our-service 
# robots.txt
# This should block WPUmbrella

User-agent: WPUmbrella
Disallow: /

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