WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by WPMUDEV.
Runs a full scan of a site to find any broken links
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.
WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker identifies itself with this user agent string:
WPMU DEV Broken Link Checker SpiderAnyone 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 WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker 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: WPMU Disallow: /
User-agent: WPMU Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: WPMU Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: WPMU Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: WPMU group, WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.WPMU from WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker's user agent; check WPMUDEV'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 WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersWPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker 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 WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker 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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WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by WPMUDEV. Runs a full scan of a site to find any broken links
We have not confirmed whether WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker 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: WPMU" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "WPMU DEV Broken Link Checker" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker may not follow it, and anyone can send WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker's user agent, so a fake WPMUDEVBrokenLinkChecker 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.
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