Freshping is a bot in the accessibility checkers category, operated by Freshworks.
Check website is online and issue an alert when its down
Accessibility checkers scan pages for WCAG issues on behalf of site owners and auditors. Allow the checkers you run and keep them out of analytics.
Sample user agent strings sent by Freshping:
FreshpingBot/1.0 (+https://freshping.io/)FreshpingBot/1.0Anyone 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 Freshping 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: Freshping Disallow: /
User-agent: Freshping Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: Freshping Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: Freshping Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: Freshping group, Freshping ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.Freshping from Freshping's user agent; check Freshworks'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 Freshping if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersFreshping is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow Freshping only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf Freshping 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 Freshping 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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Freshping is a bot in the accessibility checkers category, operated by Freshworks. Check website is online and issue an alert when its down
We have not confirmed whether Freshping 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: Freshping" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "Freshping" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so Freshping may not follow it, and anyone can send Freshping's user agent, so a fake Freshping ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Accessibility checkers scan pages for WCAG issues on behalf of site owners and auditors. Allow the checkers you run and keep them out of analytics.
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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