Alexa Site Audit

Alexa Site Audit is a site monitor run by Alexa Internet.

Operator
Alexa Internet
Type
Site Monitor
Official page
support.alexa.com
In Vireo
Excluded, reported under Uptime monitors

User agent

Requests from Alexa Site Audit carry a user agent like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; alexa site audit/1.0; http://www.alexa.com/help/webmasters; )

Device Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):

alexa site audit

Anyone can put any name in a user agent. Where the operator publishes IP ranges, checking the request's address against them is the way to confirm a visit is genuine.

How Vireo counts Alexa Site Audit

Vireo keeps requests from Alexa Site Audit out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under Uptime monitors, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.

Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over Alexa Site Audit's user agents.

Sources

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