Rigor

What is Rigor?

About

Rigor is a digital experience monitoring bot that performs synthetic monitoring and web performance testing to help detect performance issues and optimize user experience. You can see how often Rigor visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers generally visit websites on direct behalf of a user who is evaluating some feature or attribute. Visits can be one-off or part of a larger crawl.

Type

Developer Helper
Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By Splunk
Last Updated 14 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Rigor
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Country of Origin

United Kingdom
Rigor normally visits from the United Kingdom

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
Use the WordPress plugin, Node.js package, or API to get started in seconds.
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Rigor?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block Rigor?

You can block Rigor or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

How Do I Block All Developer Helpers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new developer helpers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt
User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0; Rigor) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Rigor # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/rigor
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

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