IAS Wombles

Operator

Integral Ad Science, Inc.

Type

AI Data Scraper

Official page

integralads.com

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under AI crawlers

User agent

Requests from IAS Wombles carry a user agent like this:

IAS Wombles (ias_wombles; http://integralads.com/site-indexing-policy/)

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

ias_wombles

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 IAS Wombles

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

Because it's an AI crawler, its requests also count toward the pages AI crawlers took, which Vireo shows next to the readers AI assistants sent back. See how the AI assistants card works.

Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over IAS Wombles's user agents.

Sources

• IAS Wombles information page (integralads.com)
• Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)