Bot Traffic

Bots and filtering

A common source of frustration when monitoring gate traffic is online bot traffic from sources like search engines and AI scrapers, which makes it harder to measure how many real users are seeing your changes. Statsig has bot filtering in place to remove known bots from your exposures data, so the exposure counts and analytics you see reflect real users only.

After Statsig filters bot data from your exposures data, it isn't viewable in the Statsig console. Contact Slack support if you have additional questions.

Controlling gates and experiments for bots

By design, Statsig doesn't block bots from receiving your feature flags and experiments. Statsig filters their exposures from analysis data and the exposure count you see in Pulse. The API and SDK results for bots are unchanged; bots are served configs and variants following your setup.

You may want to restrict what features bots see. For example, if you are testing a new homepage variant and don't want search engines to index it yet, you can do so through Segments:

1. Create a "Known Bots" Segment for your project:

   Create a new segment, ensuring that it will be a conditional segment.

   

   After creating the segment, add a new rule. Set Criteria to "Browser Name". Leave Operator as "Any Of". In the Values field, paste the following string in its entirety. (There is a copy button to the right.) When pasting, the Statsig console splits the list into individual bot names.

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   Scomplerbot, WincherBot, fixbot, keys-so-bot, MojeekBot, Gulper Web Bot, Mattermost-Bot, SerendeputyBot, uipbot, WebCrawler, HearsayPDFBot, WRTNBot, BublupBot, InsytfulBot, DingTalkBot, uk_ldfc_renderbot, crawlers, ImagesiftBot, idealo-bot, taboolabot, KlaxoonBot, SemrushBot, archiver/3.1.1 +http://www.archive.org/details/archive.org_bot, StractBot, crawler_eb_germany_2, exabot, DocBase Crawler, co Bot, Superfeedr bot, Pokey_Bot, GooglePlusBot, OtherwebBot, PubMatic Crawler Bot, SiteAuditBot, Gensparkbot, wpbot, archive.org_bot, Audisto Crawler, amazon-product-discovery-bot, Atomseobot, Googlebot-Mobile, hubspot crawler, XoviOnpageCrawler, PerplexityBot, QualifiedBot, YodaoBot, BitSightBot, GG PeekBot, SMTBot, amazonproductbot, FAST-WebCrawler, TwitterCommerceBot, WellKnownBot, PAGEFREEZER CRAWLER,  dbot, htc_botdugls, RavenCrawler, oBot, notebot, ViberBot, KStandBot, scoopit-crawler, SpeechifyBot, Spider_Bot, txt Crawler, net/bot, BugBountyBot, Letianpai_Robot, by fynd.bot, discobot, LineBotWebhook, ahrefsbot, Veoozbot, tkbot, coccocbot, Googlebot-Video, Streamline3Bot, Zoombot, adbeat_bot, msnbot, Nextdoorbot, node DuckAssistBot, redditbot, Xing Bot, DocSearch Crawler, ; bot, Storebot, playwright-bot, 47_safeAreaBottom, online-webceo-bot, SmarshBot, BeeperBot, ChannelBot, BrightEdge Crawler, //boteden, Quantcastbot, SpringserveBot, IAS Crawler, managr-webcrawler, ) Bot, Dragonbot, crawler4j, tyseobotmobile, IVW-Crawler, SEBot, sap-search-web-crawler, AndersPinkBot, Dcard-link-preview-bot, Mediumbot, Light Crawler, dataforseobot, Better Uptime Bot, CCBot, es_bot, DuckAssistBot, SeznamBot, telegrambot, crawler, Jugendschutzprogramm-Crawler, SeoCherryBot, GroupMeBot, HyperMegaBotGettingOnlyHTMLsFromYourWebsite, our-crawler, Slackbot-LinkExpanding, YandexMobileBot, Web-Crawler, PaperLiBot, Swiftbot, Paqlebot, YandexRenderResourcesBot, MetaJobBot, SynologyChatBot, GenomeCrawlerd, robot, StatusCakeBot, node bitlybot, Your robot, Pharosbot, TSMbot, WalluBot, slackbot, AmazonAdBot, AspiegelBot, EzoicBot, TiggeritoBot, eventseekerBot, AwarioBot, Leikibot, Timpibot, like Gecko) bot, Quora-Bot, JobBot, googlebot, PetalBot, eu bot, LinkArchiver twitter bot, DF Bot, Screaming Frog Wise SEO Spider, Clickagy Intelligence Bot, BLP_bbot, bitlybot, WazzupCrawler, web-crawler, pingbot, yoozBot, triptease-bot, Plesk screenshot bot, Magus Bot, node Screaming Frog SEO Spider, YextBot, seobilitybot, tyseobot, applebot, bingbot, GetLocalBot, TwitterBot, rogerbot, Preview Service; bot, traq-ogp-fetcher-curl-bot, seesawbot, Greppr Web Crawler, ResearchBot, web-bot, iAskBot, JobboerseBot, CriteoBot, FandomOpenGraphBot, com feedbot, Amazon-Advertising-ad-standards-bot, MotoMinerBot, peer39_crawler, Discordbot, DuckDuckGo-Favicons-Bot, KeybaseBot, adsbot, Open Graph Bot, emulate-seobots, bountybot, InfobipCrawler, GoogleBot, macox bot, Google-bot, captify-crawler, Robot, aiHitBot, fedistatsCrawler, ExtendedStayBot, NetpeakCheckerBot, com/bots, Automattic Analytics Crawler, Blog Rssbot, Dubbotbot, Rightlander Crawler, ClarityBot, Cookiebot, UOrgTestingBot, AcademicBotRTU, SEMrushBot, Server Crawler, Diffbot, DiscourseBot, chatbot, VirusTotalBot, SaberBot, TZUnfurlBot, Mail.RU_Bot, Monsidobot, YandexAccessibilityBot, preview service; bot, ecoresearchCrawler, PulsePoint-Crawler, DataForSeoBot, petalbot, Xbot, LinkedInBot, GnowitNewsbot, vebidoobot, Bawaab_bot, Brightbot, ClineCrawler, ; Bot, MSIECrawler, MoodleBot, Testcrawler, AASA-Bot, GPTBot, StrapBot, 5) bot, mj12bot, screaming frog seo spider, HubSpot Crawler, COIBotParser, OcelotBot, com crawler, Pinterestbot, VelenPublicWebCrawler, Firefox superpagesbot2, Parser Robot, GrapeshotCrawler, Mediatoolkitbot, am a bot, semrushbot, SearchAtlas Bot, DiffeoBot, IBM-Crawler, spbot, DatoCmsSearchBot, SISTRIX Crawler, bountybotttt, Summalybot, ID bot, node AppleNewsBot, DotBot, TesseractBotAgent, foundeebot, BadooBot, BacklinksExtendedBot, wowLink Crawler, about-crawlers, find-seo-bot, GraphiteBot, Sidetrade indexer bot, BLEXBot, rc-crawler, FacebookBot, nerdybot, Senutobot, Facebot, //botim, WallabyupBot, TurnitinBot,  XBot_Senior, node ZoominfoBot, AhrefsBot, Exabot, PhaverBot, Applebot, TermlyBot, SemjiBot, Space Unfurl Bot, Slackbot, bidswitchbot, //botsin, AdsBot-Google, Morningscore Bot, DuckDuckBot, UptimeRobot, ClaudeBot, naverbookmarkcrawler, PingdomBot, Web Crawler, PlurkBot, node GrowSEOBot, WebExplorerSearchBot, node FullStoryBot, WebwikiBot, bot, policy adbeat_bot, trendictionbot0, ezoicbot, Catrobatbot, AdsTxtCrawlerTP, com/bot, Nigooutbot, PiBot, pinterestbot, http-spiders-bot, Ocarinabot, msnbot-media, AppsFlyerBot, SeobilityBot, Impressumscrawler, SurdotlyBot, cXensebot, Amazonbot, Rankabot, 2ip bot, harsilbot, FullStoryBot, com bot, Rhobot, FreshpingBot, twitterbot, Twitterbot, Caliperbot, Googlebot-Image, osapon ) bot, yandexbot, MJ12bot, Taboolabot, ActiveComplyBot, MixrankBot, 48_safeAreaBottom, compatible; 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   This segment can then be reused for all your launches.

2. Apply the Segment to your Gates and Experiments:

   For Gates, create a new rule that controls the bot experience.

   

   For experiments, create a Conditional Override that forces units in this segment to receive whatever version you want.

   

Opting out of bot filtering

Statsig configures bot filtering at the project level. Admins can opt out of filtering through their console settings.

Suggesting new bots to Statsig

If you have discovered bots that Statsig doesn't include in the default set, or you have internal bots your company manages that you want applied to all bot filtering, reach out in Slack.