NIXStatsbot

monitoring NIXStatsbot

NIXStats web crawler for monitoring

About this crawler

NIXStatsbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern NIXStatsbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block NIXStatsbot 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: NIXStatsbot
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
NIXStatsbot
Pattern
NIXStatsbot
Tags
monitoring
Reference
http://www.nixstats.com/bot.html
Added
2020/03/16
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NIXStatsbot/1.1; +http://www.nixstats.com/bot.html)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow NIXStatsbot:

User-agent: NIXStatsbot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} NIXStatsbot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "NIXStatsbot") { return 403; }
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