Identification
Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:
DomainsBot does not publish a way to verify Pandalytics's traffic. Treat its user agent as a claim, not proof: anyone can send it. Read DomainsBot's documentation.
How to block Pandalytics
Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from Pandalytics's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block Pandalytics from the whole site User-agent: Pandalytics Disallow: /
Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:
# Let it in, but keep it out of one room User-agent: Pandalytics Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Most active around 06:00. Before the coffee is made.
Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 2 requests. Read robots.txt 1 times.
Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.
Where it comes from
The networks Pandalytics's visits came from:
Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.
Keeper's field notes
Questions site owners ask
Does Pandalytics respect robots.txt?
Yes. In 2 requests observed here it has read robots.txt and never fetched a disallowed page.
Will blocking Pandalytics hurt my search rankings?
No. SEO crawlers build tools for marketers. Blocking them hides your links from those tools, not from search engines.
How often does Pandalytics visit?
Here, about 0 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.