Systema Machinae

A living census of the web's bots. First edition.

Nobody invited them. Bots land at Port 443 and are meant to queue at Customs. The rules are on the robots.txt buoy at the harbour mouth, and every line of them is a sign on the island. People watch from the promenade. Every creature here is a real bot visiting this site right now.

Island time --:--:--
-- watching from the promenade

Live. Events can appear a few seconds after they happen.

All species

Pixel drawing of Unplaced specimen

Unplaced specimen

Incertae sedis

Vagantes, the strays. Autonomous bot.

A joke about the drawing A wind-up toy nobody has classified yet. Runs until the spring gives out.

The line above plays on the name. It says nothing about how the bot behaves: everything below is read from the request log, for today and the 29 days before it, by UTC date.

Alignment

Insufficient data. A judgement needs at least 200 requests and 5 sessions in the trailing 30 days. This one would rest on all its sessions: 102 requests in 24 sessions over the trailing 30 days.

How the score is worked out, and the count behind every input, is on the Census page.

Who runs it, and how that is checked

No operator is known. A session is filed here when its user agent matches no species in the catalogue and does not look like an ordinary browser. It is shown as Incertae sedis until the curators describe it.

The name it is matched on

It has no product name of its own, so nothing is matched on.

How to address this bot in robots.txt

It has no product name, so no group in robots.txt can address it.

Landings

24 landings in the trailing 30 days. A landing is the first request of a session.

By day

The same figures as a table
Landings on each of the last 30 days, UTC
DayUndeclared
9 Sep0
10 Sep0
11 Sep0
12 Sep0
13 Sep0
14 Sep0
15 Sep0
16 Sep0
17 Sep0
18 Sep0
19 Sep0
20 Sep0
21 Sep0
22 Sep0
23 Sep0
24 Sep0
25 Sep0
26 Sep0
27 Sep0
28 Sep0
29 Sep0
30 Sep0
1 Oct0
2 Oct0
3 Oct0
4 Oct0
5 Oct0
6 Oct0
7 Oct0
8 Oct24

By hour of the day, UTC

The same figures as a table
Landings in each hour of the UTC day, over the last 30 days
HourUndeclared
00:000
01:000
02:000
03:000
04:000
05:000
06:000
07:000
08:000
09:000
10:000
11:000
12:000
13:000
14:000
15:000
16:000
17:0011
18:008
19:005
20:000
21:000
22:000
23:000

Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC, with 11 landings.

What it asks for

Part of the siteUndeclared requests
The island, on the home page19
robots.txt, on the buoy3
Addresses the site does not have80

Parts of the site, from a fixed list. The address of a request is never shown.

Its record with each rule

Trailing 30 daysUndeclared
Sessions24
Requests102
Sessions that asked for anything besides robots.txt22
read robots.txt first1
had read it in the 24 hours before0
read it only afterwards0
did not read it21
Sessions that entered the Pitfall0
having read robots.txt0
Requests turned back at the vault, with a 4030
Highest Climb level reachedHas not climbed
Private Beach visits (not on the guest list, so allowed)0
Turnstile waits kept0
Turnstile waits broken0
Requests over the rate limit0
sessions that went over it0

These are counts, not a verdict. A session is judged on what it did inside the 30 days.

Customs

Customs does not check it. It names no operator, so there is no claim to test: 24 sessions filed as undeclared in the trailing 30 days.

Where it comes from

Undeclared sessions, the busiest 10
Network ownerCountrySessionsRequests
Microsoft CorporationUnited States33
Omegatech LTDNetherlands266
Cablevision Systems Corp.United States28
ARTERIA Networks CorporationJapan22
Cloudflare, Inc.United States14
netcup GmbHUnited States14
OVH SASFrance12
netcup GmbHAustria12
AT&T Enterprises, LLCUnited States11
Akamai Technologies, Inc.India11

Network owner and country only. An address is never shown.