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WebsitePulseBot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

WebsitePulseBot is the HTTP monitoring probe for WebsitePulse's monitoring servince. Operated by WebSitePulse.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is WebsitePulseBot?

WebsitePulseBot is the automated monitoring agent operated by WebSitePulse, a long-standing provider of infrastructure and website performance management services. It functions as a probe that periodically visits specific URLs configured by WebSitePulse customers to verify that their websites are online, responsive, and performing within expected parameters. By simulating user requests, the bot provides critical data on server response times and potential downtime, allowing administrators to receive alerts and maintain service level agreements.

Helpful — This bot performs essential uptime monitoring and performance testing for website owners, helping them maintain service reliability.

Identification

Bot name

WebsitePulseBot

Operator

WebSitePulse

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls websites exclusively to perform health checks and availability diagnostics as requested by the site owner through their WebSitePulse account. It does not index content for search engines or scrape data for AI training; rather, it measures the technical performance of the target server. Site administrators can verify the bot's legitimacy by checking the source IP addresses against the official WebSitePulse monitoring network ranges or by reviewing the user-agent string in their server logs.

Block or allow WebsitePulseBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for websitepulse checker 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 WebsitePulseBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: websitepulse checker
Disallow: /

# Allow WebsitePulseBot full access
User-agent: websitepulse checker
Allow: /