Site24x7 Defacement Monitor

Site24x7 Defacement Monitor is a site monitor run by Site24x7.

Operator
Site24x7
Type
Site Monitor
Official page
support.site24x7.com
In Vireo
Excluded, reported under Uptime monitors

User agent

Requests from Site24x7 Defacement Monitor carry a user agent like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Unknown; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) HLB/1.247

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

.* HLB

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 Site24x7 Defacement Monitor

Vireo keeps requests from Site24x7 Defacement Monitor 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 Site24x7 Defacement Monitor's user agents.

Sources

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