Automattic Analytics Crawler
WordPress.com analytics crawler by Automattic
About this crawler
Automattic Analytics Crawler is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Automattic Analytics Crawler in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Automattic Analytics Crawler traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Automattic Analytics Crawler
- Pattern
Automattic Analytics Crawler- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- http://wordpress.com/crawler/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Automattic Analytics Crawler/0.1; http://wordpress.com/crawler/
Automattic Analytics Crawler/0.2; http://wordpress.com/crawler/
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Automattic Analytics Crawler:
User-agent: Automattic Analytics Crawler
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Automattic Analytics Crawler [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Automattic Analytics Crawler") {
return 403;
}
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