Congratulations, you have a fan!
Did our robot drop by your site? Then someone loves what you publish, enough to want to hear about every update. They follow you through Alertoweb. We just deliver the news.
Who are your fans?
People who do not want to miss anything you do.
Your customers
They are waiting for your next release, a product back in stock or your new dates.
Your future hires
They dream of working with you and keep an eye out for your next job opening.
Your readers
They do not want to miss a single article, even without a newsletter or an RSS feed.
Your partners
They like to stay up to date with your news, your opening hours, your announcements.
Who exactly? We will not tell: a fan is entitled to some privacy. But know this: every time you publish, someone is glad you did.
A quiet, well-mannered fan
Our robot comes to see what is new for your fans, on tiptoe:
- It only reads the pages your fans follow, or the home page of a site they are thinking of following. It does not crawl your site.
- It usually drops by once a day, once an hour at most, and only once however many fans you have.
- It only downloads the HTML of the page: no images, style sheets or scripts, and it does not run JavaScript.
- It spaces its requests to the same site by at least 5 seconds and ignores pages larger than 5 MB.
- It uses conditional requests (
ETag,Last-Modified): an unchanged page costs your server almost nothing. - If your server answers with an error, it waits and comes back later (15 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours).
- It submits no form, signs in to no account and does not accept cookies.
Your content stays yours
We show your fans what has changed on your page, and no one else. Your content is not republished, indexed or sold. And to read it all, they come back to your site: that many more visits for you.
How to recognise it
In your server logs, it sends the following User-Agent header:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/153.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Not in the mood for fans?
No problem, no hard feelings. Our robot respects the robots.txt file of your site
(RFC 9309).
To close the door on your whole site, add:
User-agent: Mozilla Disallow: /
You can also close only some pages (Disallow: /members…).
The file is read again at most 24 hours after your change;
your fans are then told that these pages can no longer be followed.
Even simpler: write to us through our contact form. We add your site to our exclusion list, and our robot no longer visits it, whatever your robots.txt says.
A question?
We are happy to answer: write to us through our contact form.
And you, whose fan are you?
Follow the pages that matter to you in turn: Alertoweb tells you about every update.
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