Automattic Analytics Crawler

seo 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%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Automattic Analytics Crawler
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

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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