Hotjar

Usually allow

Hotjar is a feed fetcher used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery.

User-Agent

Hotjar

User-agent strings are identity signals, not proof of identity. Confirm the source and behavior before trusting a request.

Verification and Detection

Verification method: Verify Hotjar by matching `Hotjar` to documented crawler-pattern evidence, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.

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.

Handling Guidance

This bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and its behavior matches the operator documentation and your site policy.

Hotjar is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.

Record Details

Type: feed
Operator: Hotjar
Family: Hotjar
Kind: Fetcher
Purpose: Feed Fetch
Identity: Verified Bot
Detection confidence: Medium
Spoofing risk: Hotjar Has Medium Spoofing Risk Because User Agent Strings Can Be Copied; Pair The Match With DNS, IP, Behavior, Or Operator Evidence.
Status: Active
Respects robots.txt: Unknown
Last verified: 2026 04 01

Robots.txt Snippet

User-agent: Hotjar
Disallow: /