What is ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis?

ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Contentsquare (DareBoost).

Bot name
ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis
Operator
Contentsquare (DareBoost)
Type
Bot
Respects robots.txt
Yes
robots.txt user agent
CSpeedTP
Signs requests (Web Bot Auth)
No

About ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis

DareBoost Speed Analysis (now part of Content

Monitoring bots check uptime, performance and page changes on behalf of a site owner or a third party. Allow the services you run yourself and exclude them from analytics so they do not inflate page views.

ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis user agent

ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis identifies itself with this user agent string:

  • Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.86 Safari/537.36 CSpeedTP DareBoost

Anyone 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.

How to block ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis in robots.txt

ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis follows robots.txt, so these rules stop it crawling the paths you choose. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.

Block ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis from the whole site

User-agent: CSpeedTP
Disallow: /

Block ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis from some folders

User-agent: CSpeedTP
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /search

Allow ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis only on some folders

User-agent: CSpeedTP
Allow: /blog/
Disallow: /

Allow ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis and block other crawlers

User-agent: CSpeedTP
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Things to know

  • Each host needs its own file. Rules on www.example.com do not apply to shop.example.com.
  • A crawler obeys only the most specific group that names it. Once you add a User-agent: CSpeedTP group, ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.
  • The user agent name is not case sensitive. We take CSpeedTP from ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis's user agent; check Contentsquare (DareBoost)'s own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.
  • Crawlers cache robots.txt, so changes can take up to a day to apply. Disallow stops crawling but does not remove pages already collected or indexed.

Limits of robots.txt

  1. ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis may not follow the rule. ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis says it follows robots.txt, but nothing enforces that. Changes can take a day to apply, the operator can change its policy, and other crawlers from Contentsquare (DareBoost) use different names and rules.
  2. The user agent could be fake. robots.txt matches the name a request claims. Anyone can send ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis's user agent, and a scraper using it is not bound by Contentsquare (DareBoost)'s robots.txt policy. Only checking the source network tells a real ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis from a fake one.

Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.

Who should care about ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis

Publishers

Allow ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.

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Media buyers and advertisers

ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.

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E-commerce

Allow ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.

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SaaS and APIs

If ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.

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Block ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis with Transfon Security

robots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis 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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Control ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis on your site

  • See every ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis visit and the pages it reads
  • Spot bots that fake trusted crawler names
  • Block, allow or rate limit ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis with one rule
  • Works with or without robots.txt support

Frequently asked questions

What is ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis?

ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Contentsquare (DareBoost). DareBoost Speed Analysis (now part of Content

Does ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis respect robots.txt?

Yes. ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the CSpeedTP user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.

How do I block ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis?

Add "User-agent: CSpeedTP" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "CSpeedTP" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.

Is robots.txt enough to block ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis?

No. robots.txt is voluntary, so ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis may not follow it, and anyone can send ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis's user agent, so a fake ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.

Should I block ContentSquareSpeedAnalysis?

Monitoring bots check uptime, performance and page changes on behalf of a site owner or a third party. Allow the services you run yourself and exclude them from analytics so they do not inflate page views.

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