Hotjar
GoodBotVerifiedBOTHotjar provides user analytics and feedback for website owners. Operated by Hotjar.
What is Hotjar?
Hotjar is a web crawler operated by Hotjar. Hotjar provides user analytics and feedback for website owners.
Identification
HotjarWhy it crawls your site
Hotjar crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Hotjar as part of their monitoring and analytics infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow Hotjar
Add a Disallow rule for Hotjar 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 Hotjar from crawling your entire site User-agent: Hotjar Disallow: / # Allow Hotjar full access User-agent: Hotjar Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Hotjar. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Hotjar's documentation.
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