websitepulse
Synthetic monitoring agent measuring availability performance and content integrity
About this crawler
websitepulse is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern websitepulse in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block websitepulse traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- websitepulse
- Pattern
websitepulse- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://www.websitepulse.com/kb/websitepulse
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
websitepulse checker/3.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Netscape 4.75; Linux)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow websitepulse:
User-agent: websitepulse
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} websitepulse [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "websitepulse") {
return 403;
}
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