Pingdom
Pingdom website monitoring web crawler
About this crawler
Pingdom is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern [pP]ingdom in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Pingdom traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.13%
Technical details
- Name
- Pingdom
- Pattern
[pP]ingdom- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- http://www.pingdom.com
- Added
- 2017/09/16
- rDNS suffixes
.pingdom.com,.pingdom.net- Instances
- 9 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Pingdom 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.
.pingdom.com.pingdom.net
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/59.0.3071.109 Chrome/59.0.3071.109 Safari/537.36 PingdomPageSpeed/1.0 (pingbot/2.0; +http://www.pingdom.com/)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; pingbot/2.0; +http://www.pingdom.com/)
Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4_(http://www.pingdom.com/)
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/61.0.3163.100 Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36 PingdomPageSpeed/1.0 (pingbot/2.0; +http://www.pingdom.com/)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) browser/2020.2.1 Chrome/78.0.3904.130 Electron/7.3.2 Safari/537.36 PingdomTMS/2020.2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) browser/2020.2.5 Chrome/78.0.3904.130 Electron/7.3.15 Safari/537.36 PingdomTMS/2020.2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) browser/2020.2.0 Chrome/78.0.3904.130 Electron/7.1.7 Safari/537.36 PingdomTMS/2020.2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) renderer/2020.2.0 Chrome/78.0.3904.130 Electron/7.1.7 Safari/537.36 PingdomTMS/2020.2
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/61.0.3163.100 Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36 PingdomPageSpeed/1.0 (pingbot/2.0; http://www.pingdom.com/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Pingdom:
User-agent: Pingdom
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} [pP]ingdom [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "[pP]ingdom") {
return 403;
}
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