What is Monsidobot (FAQ)

What is monsidobot?¶

Monsidobot is the name of the Acquia Optimize web crawler. It is the tool that Optimize uses to do the scan on websites, as requested by clients as part of our offering.

This article provides the answers to several frequently asked questions regarding the Optimize crawler.

Why does monsidobot make a request even though the link is disallowed in robots.txt?¶

The request is made because the purpose is to verify the status of the link. Unless you are a client, Aquia has no interest in the content of Your website and will not save nor use it in any way outside of the response code for verification of the status of the link.

I’m not a client. Why am I seeing requests from monsidobot?¶

This happens when one or more of the Aquia clients has links to your website and Optimize makes requests to determine if any links that they have on their site are still valid.

For non-client links, the crawler attempts to make a HEAD request to save resources. Unfortunately, not all websites support HEAD, and so for a range of non-2XX response codes, the crawler attempts to determine if the link is actually in a non-functional state or if the website does not support HEAD requests.

Additional resources¶

Monsidobot generally respects crawl-delay in robots.txt as long as the value is between 0 and 60. 60 is used for any higher value. For any other questions or concerns contact us.

IP addresses, Ports, User agents¶

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Data hosting and security.

Note
Use the alternative user agent only when the primary user agent fails.

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