Overview
WebTotemBot is a monitoring bot from WebTotem used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is WebTotemBot; related patterns include WTotem.
WebTotemBot 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.
WebTotemBot is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
WebTotemBot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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WebTotemBot - Aliases
- WTotem
- HTTP Agent Examples
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WebTotemBot - Robots Token
- WebTotemBot
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `WebTotemBot` 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
- WebTotem
- Operator
- WebTotem
- Company
- WebTotem
- Purpose
- Monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- WebTotemBot is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- WebTotemBot traffic is primarily detected by the `WebTotemBot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `WTotem`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with WebTotem infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- WebTotemBot 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
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: WebTotemBot Disallow: /