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Quick answer
What is Hotjar?
Hotjar is a feed fetcher used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Hotjar; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Hotjar Version/11.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1.
Hotjar is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is documented crawler-pattern evidence.
Hotjar does not have confirmed robots.txt behavior in the available public evidence.
Hotjar can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
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Identity
How to identify this Bot
- User-Agent
Hotjar- robots.txt token
Hotjar- HTTP agent
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhoneCPU iPhone OS 11_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTMLlike Gecko) Hotjar Version/11.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1- Operator
- Hotjar
- Family
- Hotjar
- Technical kind
- fetcher
- Identity method
- verified-bot
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Behavior
Purpose, behavior, and practical context
- Purpose
- feed-fetch
- Common use
- Hotjar is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
- Respects robots.txt
- unknown
- Spoofing risk
- Hotjar has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Detection notes
- Hotjar traffic is primarily detected by the `Hotjar` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Hotjar Version/11.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
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Verification and controls
Verification and blocking guidance
- Verification method
- Verify Hotjar by matching `Hotjar` to documented crawler-pattern evidence, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
- General blocking snippet
User-agent: HotjarDisallow: /
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