square
UndecidedCommunity-sourcedA crawler/bot identifier used by the Contentsquare digital experience analytics platform to filter traffic. Operated by Contentsquare.
What is square?
The 'square' bot is an internal identifier associated with Contentsquare, a digital experience analytics company. It functions as part of their infrastructure to recognize and categorize automated traffic, allowing website owners to distinguish between human visitors and various bots or spiders. By identifying these agents, the platform ensures that analytics reports reflect genuine user interactions rather than automated noise.
Identification
Why it crawls your site
This bot crawls to maintain the integrity of the Contentsquare analytics platform by identifying known automated agents. It cross-references traffic against industry-standard lists, such as the IAB/ABC International Spiders & Bots list, to ensure that data collection remains accurate. Website administrators can verify this bot by checking the official Contentsquare documentation regarding traffic filtering and bot exclusion settings.
IP ranges
Requests from square originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.
Block or allow square
Add a Disallow rule for square in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block square from crawling your entire site User-agent: square Disallow: / # Allow square full access User-agent: square Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows square. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
Traffic & trends
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Related bots
Other crawlers operated by Contentsquare.
Data sources
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