What is Webstatus247?

Webstatus247 is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by WebStatus247.

Bot name
Webstatus247
Operator
WebStatus247
Type
Bot
Respects robots.txt
Not confirmed
robots.txt user agent
Webstatus247
Signs requests (Web Bot Auth)
No

About Webstatus247

WebStatus247 is an intelligent website monitoring bot that continuously checks the availability and uptime

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.

Webstatus247 user agent

Webstatus247 identifies itself with this user agent string:

  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Webstatus247/1.0

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.

How to block Webstatus247 in robots.txt

We have not confirmed whether Webstatus247 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.

Block Webstatus247 from the whole site

User-agent: Webstatus247
Disallow: /

Block Webstatus247 from some folders

User-agent: Webstatus247
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /search

Allow Webstatus247 only on some folders

User-agent: Webstatus247
Allow: /blog/
Disallow: /

Allow Webstatus247 and block other crawlers

User-agent: Webstatus247
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: Webstatus247 group, Webstatus247 ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.
  • The user agent name is not case sensitive. We take Webstatus247 from Webstatus247's user agent; check WebStatus247'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. Webstatus247 may not follow the rule. robots.txt is a request that nothing enforces, and we have not confirmed that Webstatus247 follows it. Check your logs after adding a rule.
  2. The user agent could be fake. robots.txt matches the name a request claims. Anyone can send Webstatus247's user agent, and a scraper using it is not bound by WebStatus247's robots.txt policy. Only checking the source network tells a real Webstatus247 from a fake one.

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

Who should care about Webstatus247

Publishers

Allow Webstatus247 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

Webstatus247 is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.

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E-commerce

Allow Webstatus247 only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.

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SaaS and APIs

If Webstatus247 is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.

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Block Webstatus247 with Transfon Security

robots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows Webstatus247 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 Webstatus247 on your site

  • See every Webstatus247 visit and the pages it reads
  • Spot bots that fake trusted crawler names
  • Block, allow or rate limit Webstatus247 with one rule
  • Works with or without robots.txt support

Frequently asked questions

What is Webstatus247?

Webstatus247 is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by WebStatus247. WebStatus247 is an intelligent website monitoring bot that continuously checks the availability and uptime

Does Webstatus247 respect robots.txt?

We have not confirmed whether Webstatus247 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.

How do I block Webstatus247?

Add "User-agent: Webstatus247" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "Webstatus247" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.

Is robots.txt enough to block Webstatus247?

No. robots.txt is voluntary, so Webstatus247 may not follow it, and anyone can send Webstatus247's user agent, so a fake Webstatus247 ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.

Should I block Webstatus247?

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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