Hotjar
Analytics platform crawler collecting heatmap and behavior tracking data
About this crawler
Hotjar is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Hotjar in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Hotjar traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Hotjar
- Pattern
Hotjar- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://www.hotjar.com/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
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
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Hotjar:
User-agent: Hotjar
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Hotjar [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Hotjar") {
return 403;
}
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