StatusCake is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by StatusCake.
The StatusCake uptime monitor is used to monitor webpage availability and performance.
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 StatusCake:
statuscake uptime robotstatuscakeAnyone 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 StatusCake 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: statuscake Disallow: /
User-agent: statuscake Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: statuscake Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: statuscake Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: statuscake group, StatusCake ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.statuscake from StatusCake's user agent; check StatusCake'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 StatusCake if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersStatusCake is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow StatusCake only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf StatusCake 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 StatusCake 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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StatusCake is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by StatusCake. The StatusCake uptime monitor is used to monitor webpage availability and performance.
We have not confirmed whether StatusCake 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: statuscake" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "statuscake" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so StatusCake may not follow it, and anyone can send StatusCake's user agent, so a fake StatusCake 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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