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What is StatusCake?

Direct Answer: StatusCake is a monitoring bot operated by StatusCake, used to monitor webpage availability and performance.

Operator: StatusCake Type: Monitoring Bot Purpose: Website uptime monitoring and performance testing

The StatusCake uptime monitor is used to monitor webpage availability and performance. It checks websites at regular intervals to ensure they are functioning correctly. This bot is operated by StatusCake, a company specializing in website monitoring and performance testing.

User-Agent Identification

The following user-agent strings identify StatusCake in your live traffic data:

  • statuscake uptime robot
  • statuscake

robots.txt Rules for StatusCake

Respects robots.txt: No

This bot does not commit to following robots.txt

StatusCake does not officially follow robots.txt directives. The only reliable way to control access is through server-side blocking (IP filtering, user-agent rules in your web server config) combined with log monitoring to verify effectiveness.

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Crawl Behavior

Frequency:Continuous

Request Pattern:Not Documented

Crawl Activity Index

Relative crawl activity for StatusCake over the past 28 days. Higher values indicate increased crawling intensity compared to the period baseline.

View recent activity data (last 7 days)
Date Activity Index
Mar 28, 2026 66.5
Mar 29, 2026 65.4
Mar 30, 2026 65.4
Mar 31, 2026 68.6
Apr 1, 2026 65.2
Apr 2, 2026 68.0
Apr 3, 2026 63.0

Source: Cloudflare Radar

Why track StatusCake traffic?

Distinguish monitoring traffic from real crawler activity. StatusCake checks your site availability at regular intervals. Without proper identification, these requests can inflate your bot traffic metrics and distort crawl analysis.

Validate monitoring coverage. Track which pages StatusCake checks and how frequently, so your monitoring setup matches your infrastructure requirements.

Log Verification

To verify StatusCake traffic in your live traffic data:

  1. Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
  2. Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by StatusCake)
  3. Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
  4. Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available

Note: Observed behavior in production environments may differ from official documentation. Live traffic monitoring provides the only reliable verification of actual bot behavior.

Undocumented Information

The following information is not officially documented for StatusCake:

  • crawl frequency details
  • IP verification
  • JavaScript rendering details
  • request pattern

Official Documentation

View Official StatusCake Documentation →

Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.