Survey Bot

Operator

Domain Tools

Type

Search bot

Official page

domaintools.com

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Search engines

User agent

Requests from Survey Bot carry a user agent like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009073022 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) SurveyBot/2.3 (DomainTools)

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

SurveyBot

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 Survey Bot

Vireo keeps requests from Survey Bot 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 Survey Bot's user agents.

Sources

• Survey Bot information page (domaintools.com)
• Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)