WebSitePulse

Operator

WebSitePulse

Type

Site Monitor

Official page

badcheese.com

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Uptime monitors

User agent

Requests from WebSitePulse carry a user agent like this:

websitepulse checker/1.1 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Netscape 4.75; Linux)

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

websitepulse[+ ]checker

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 WebSitePulse

Vireo keeps requests from WebSitePulse 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 WebSitePulse's user agents.

Sources

• WebSitePulse information page (badcheese.com)
• Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)