BBC Forge URL Monitor
BBC Forge URL Monitor is a site monitor run by BBC.
- Operator
- BBC
- Type
- Site Monitor
- Official page
- bbc.com
- In Vireo
- Excluded, reported under Uptime monitors
User agent
Requests from BBC Forge URL Monitor carry a user agent like this:
BBC-Forge-URL-Monitor-TwistedDevice Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):
BBC-Forge-URL-Monitor-TwistedAnyone 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 BBC Forge URL Monitor
Vireo keeps requests from BBC Forge URL Monitor 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 BBC Forge URL Monitor's user agents.
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