PTST
WebPageTest web crawler for testing
About this crawler
PTST is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern (^| )PTST\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PTST traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- PTST
- Pattern
(^| )PTST\/- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://www.webpagetest.org
- Added
- 2021/12/05
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.45 Safari/537.36 PTST/211202.211915
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0 PTST/211202.211915
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow PTST:
User-agent: PTST
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (^| )PTST\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(^| )PTST\\/") {
return 403;
}
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