About HypeStat bot

What is Web crawler?

A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion. Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, or Web spiders, Web robots, or especially in the FOAF community Web scutters. This process is called Web crawling or spidering. A Web crawler is one type of bot, or software agent. In general, it starts with a list of URLs to visit, called the seeds. As the crawler visits these URLs, it identifies all the hyperlinks in the page and adds them to the list of URLs to visit, called the crawl frontier. URLs from the frontier are recursively visited according to a set of policies.

How to turn it off?

The quick way to prevent HypeStat bot from visiting your site is to put these two lines into the /robots.txt file on your server:

User-agent: HypeStat
Disallow: /

I have problem with HypeStat bot

Just drop an email at support (at) hypestat.com.