Allow Hakanai Bot for SEO Insights

Overview

While Pulse filters most bot traffic from your analytics, there's one important bot you should allow: the Hakanai bot.
This bot is essential for providing SEO insights and technical analysis of your blog.

About Hakanai Bot

The Hakanai bot crawls your pages to:

  • Analyze technical SEO elements
  • Check performance metrics
  • Validate content structure
  • Monitor site health
  • Gather metadata for recommendations

Bot Identification

The Hakanai bot identifies itself with the following User-Agent string:

HakanaiBot/1.0 (+https://hakanai.io/bot; contact@hakanai.io) Web analytics bot for Hakanai

Making Sure Hakanai Works for You

If you're using Pulse

No action needed! Pulse automatically recognizes the Hakanai bot and excludes it from your traffic stats while allowing it to analyze your pages.

If you're using bot filtering

Make sure to whitelist the Hakanai User-Agent if you have custom bot filtering in place. The bot should be allowed to:

  • Access your pages
  • Read your content
  • Parse your HTML

If you're using a firewall or security service

Add the following User-Agent pattern to your whitelist:

HakanaiBot/*

Bot Behavior

To ensure transparency, here's how our bot operates:

  • Identifies itself clearly through its User-Agent
  • Provides contact information
  • Only accesses publicly available pages

Support

If you're experiencing any issues with the Hakanai bot or need help with configuration, contact our support team at contact@hakanai.io.

Always refer to this page for the most up-to-date information about the Hakanai bot.

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