AutomatedWebTesting is a bot in the other bots category, operated by Ghost Inspector.
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Bots that do not fit the other categories. Review their purpose and allow only what you need.
AutomatedWebTesting identifies itself with this user agent string:
GhostInspectorAnyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
We have not confirmed whether AutomatedWebTesting follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: GhostInspector Disallow: /
User-agent: GhostInspector Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: GhostInspector Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: GhostInspector Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: GhostInspector group, AutomatedWebTesting ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.GhostInspector from AutomatedWebTesting's user agent; check Ghost Inspector's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
Allow AutomatedWebTesting if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersAutomatedWebTesting is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow AutomatedWebTesting only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf AutomatedWebTesting is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows AutomatedWebTesting by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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AutomatedWebTesting is a bot in the other bots category, operated by Ghost Inspector. Ghost Inspector is a cloud-based automated br
We have not confirmed whether AutomatedWebTesting follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.
Add "User-agent: GhostInspector" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "GhostInspector" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so AutomatedWebTesting may not follow it, and anyone can send AutomatedWebTesting's user agent, so a fake AutomatedWebTesting ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Bots that do not fit the other categories. Review their purpose and allow only what you need.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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