Buck
Buck is a search engine crawler run by Hypefactors A/S.
- Operator
- Hypefactors A/S
- Type
- Search bot
- Official page
- hypefactors.com
- In Vireo
- Excluded, reported under Uptime monitors
User agent
Requests from Buck carry a user agent like this:
Buck/2.2; (+https://app.hypefactors.com/media-monitoring/about.html)Device Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):
BuckAnyone 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 Buck
Vireo keeps requests from Buck 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 Buck's user agents.
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