Overview
WebsitePulseBot is a monitoring bot from WebsitePulse used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is websitepulse checker; a representative HTTP user-agent is websitepulse checker/3.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Netscape 4.75; Linux).
WebsitePulseBot 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.
WebsitePulseBot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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websitepulse checker - HTTP Agent Examples
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websitepulse checker/3.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Netscape 4.75; Linux) - Robots Token
- websitepulse checker
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `websitepulse checker` 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
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- WebsitePulse
- Operator
- WebsitePulse
- Company
- WebsitePulse
- Purpose
- Monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- WebsitePulseBot is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- WebsitePulseBot traffic is primarily detected by the `websitepulse checker` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `websitepulse checker/3.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Netscape 4.75; Linux)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with WebsitePulse infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- WebsitePulseBot 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
- Do not block
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.