Marfeel is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Marfeel.
Marfeel analytics bot. Checks service 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.
Sample user agent strings sent by Marfeel:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NewsRoom.BI/0.1; +http://www.newsroom.bi/bot.html)Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA51N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.67 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Booldog/1.0)Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.36(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Booldog/1.0)Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Marshall/1.0)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.
We have not confirmed whether Marfeel 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: mrfCompass Disallow: /
User-agent: mrfCompass Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: mrfCompass Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: mrfCompass Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: mrfCompass group, Marfeel ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.mrfCompass from Marfeel's user agent; check Marfeel'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 Marfeel if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersMarfeel is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow Marfeel only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf Marfeel 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 Marfeel 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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Marfeel is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Marfeel. Marfeel analytics bot. Checks service content.
We have not confirmed whether Marfeel 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: mrfCompass" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "mrfCompass" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so Marfeel may not follow it, and anyone can send Marfeel's user agent, so a fake Marfeel ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
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.
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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