User-agent & AI crawler patterns
Catches search engine crawlers, headless browsers, SEO and monitoring tools, script and framework HTTP clients — and the growing wave of AI crawlers and agents.
Bot Detection
Analytics without the bots
Five detection layers filter crawlers, scrapers, headless browsers, and AI agents before they pollute your data. And unlike silent filters, Rybbit shows you everything it blocked.
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Bot Detection
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A meaningful share of your traffic isn't human — search crawlers, uptime monitors, scrapers, link previewers, and a fast-growing wave of AI agents. Left in your data, they inflate visitor counts, distort bounce rates, and quietly wreck conversion metrics. Rybbit checks every tracking request against five detection layers before it ever reaches your analytics.
Most analytics tools filter bots silently against a user-agent list, so you never know what was removed — or what slipped through. Rybbit stores a compact record of every filtered request and gives you a dedicated Bots report: total blocked requests, bot share of traffic, which detection layers matched, and breakdowns by page, referrer, country, device, and user-agent.
Filtered bots are excluded from dashboards, funnels, journeys, and session lists — and they never count toward your bill. One toggle per site, no changes to your tracking script.
Capabilities
What you can do
Browser fingerprint checks
Header heuristics and client-side signals expose bots that fake a browser user-agent: missing browser headers, automation APIs, impossible window dimensions, empty plugin lists, and headless renderers.
ASN & network intelligence
Curated ASNs of known AI, scanner, and measurement providers trigger detection directly. Generic hosting ASNs only count as supporting evidence — so visitors on VPNs, corporate gateways, and CDNs aren't falsely flagged.
Rate & anomaly detection
Rolling windows catch crawl-shaped behavior: bursts from one IP, rapid path fan-out, rotating user-agents, and replayed tracking requests that pass every other check.
A dedicated Bots report
See everything that was filtered: total blocked requests, bot share of traffic, trends over time, and breakdowns by page, referrer, country, device, and user-agent — with the exact detection layers that matched.
Bots are never billed
Detected bot visits don't count toward your usage. You're not paying for GPTBot to crawl your docs or a scraper to hammer your product pages.
Getting Started
How it works
- 01
Enable Block Bot Traffic
Flip one toggle in Site Settings. Bot detection is configured per site, and there's nothing to change in your tracking script.
- 02
Every request runs all five layers
User-agent patterns, header heuristics, client signals, ASN checks, and rate anomaly detection all run on every incoming tracking request. Rybbit records every layer that matched, then makes one final decision.
- 03
Bot traffic is filtered, not lost
Detected bots never touch your normal analytics — dashboards, funnels, journeys, and session lists stay human-only. A compact bot event record is stored separately so nothing disappears silently.
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Inspect the Bots report
Open the Bots page in your dashboard to audit what was blocked and why. Server-side events sent with an API key are treated as trusted and bypass detection entirely.
Use Cases
Who uses this
Marketing teams
Bounce rate, conversion rate, and campaign ROI all break when bots inflate the denominator. Clean traffic means decisions based on humans.
E-commerce stores
Price scrapers and inventory bots hit product pages constantly. Filter them out so product analytics reflect real shoppers.
Content & docs sites
AI crawlers now rival search engines in crawl volume. See exactly which bots are reading your content — without them polluting your stats.
Startups & SaaS
Launch-day traffic spikes bring uptime monitors, link previewers, and scrapers along. Know how much of that spike was real.
Agencies
Client reports lose credibility when numbers include bots. Show clients human traffic, and use the Bots report to explain the difference.
SEO teams
Separate crawler activity from organic visitors, and verify which crawlers actually visit your site and how often.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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Related features
Web AnalyticsThe clean, human-only dashboard that bot detection protects.SessionsBrowse individual visits knowing each one is a real person.FunnelsConversion rates you can trust, with bots out of the denominator.GoalsTrack conversions without automated traffic inflating results.Dashboard SharingShare clean, bot-free numbers publicly or with clients.Web VitalsPerformance metrics measured from real browsers, not headless ones.
Stop counting bots as visitors
Five-layer detection, full visibility into what was filtered, and a bill that only counts humans.
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