OnPageBot
OnPage.org legacy crawler now rebranded as Ryte
About this crawler
OnPageBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern OnPageBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block OnPageBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- OnPageBot
- Pattern
OnPageBot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://bot.onpage.org/
- Added
- 2026/05/02
- rDNS suffixes
.onpage.org,.ryte.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely OnPageBot with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.onpage.org.ryte.com
Sample User-Agent strings
OnPageBot (compatible; Googlebot 2.1; +https://bot.onpage.org/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow OnPageBot:
User-agent: OnPageBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} OnPageBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "OnPageBot") {
return 403;
}
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