Openindex Spider

Operator

Openindex B.V.

Type

Search bot

Official page

openindex.io

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Search engines

User agent

Requests from Openindex Spider carry user agents like these:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OpenindexSpider; +https://www.openindex.io/saas/about-our-spider/)

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OpenindexSpider; +http://www.openindex.io/en/webmasters/spider.html)

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

OpenindexSpider

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 Openindex Spider

Vireo keeps requests from Openindex Spider 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 Openindex Spider's user agents.

Sources

• Openindex Spider information page (openindex.io)
• Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)