Ghost Inspector
Ghost Inspector is a site monitor run by Ghost Inspector, Inc..
- Operator
- Ghost Inspector, Inc.
- Type
- Site Monitor
- Official page
- docs.ghostinspector.com
- In Vireo
- Excluded, reported under Uptime monitors
User agent
Requests from Ghost Inspector carry a user agent like this:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0 Safari/537.36 Ghost InspectorDevice Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):
Ghost InspectorAnyone 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 Ghost Inspector
Vireo keeps requests from Ghost Inspector 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 Ghost Inspector's user agents.
Sources
- Ghost Inspector information page (docs.ghostinspector.com)
- Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)
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