Overview
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 Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Hotjar can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
Hotjar- HTTP Agent Examples
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- Robots.txt Token
Hotjar- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `Hotjar` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Feed
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- Hotjar
- Purpose
- feed-fetch
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Hotjar is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
- 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.
- 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.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- No
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.