CATExplorador

Operator

Fundació puntCAT

Type

Search bot

Official page

fundacio.cat

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Search engines

User agent

Requests from CATExplorador carry a user agent like this:

CATExplorador/1.0beta (sistemes at domini dot cat; http://domini.cat/catexplorador.html)

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

CATExplorador

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 CATExplorador

Vireo keeps requests from CATExplorador out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under Search engines, 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 CATExplorador's user agents.

Sources

• CATExplorador information page (fundacio.cat)
• Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)