StatusNest Backlink Spider
Listed onlyStatusNest's link-graph crawler. It visits public web pages to record their outbound and inbound links and maintain a graph of how sites connect to each other, for use by SEO and web analysts. The operator documents a maximum rate of one request per second per domain with automatic backoff, states that it collects only public link data and basic page metadata, and that it re-reads robots.txt before every crawl session. No addresses are published.
Operated by StatusNest · Official documentation
User agents
Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.
- regexStatusNestBacklinkSpider
- observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; StatusNestBacklinkSpider/1.0; +https://statusnest.com/bot)
- observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; StatusNestBacklinkSpider; +https://statusnest.com/)
How to verify
No verification recipe published by the operator.
Good Bot Practices scorecard
- Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
- Verifiable
Operator publishes no verification path
- Respects robots.txt
Honors robots.txt (token: StatusNestBacklinkSpider)
- Behaves
Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset
- Reachable operator
Operator and documentation published
Measured against the Good Bot Practices.