Verified Bots Directory

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YandexMetrika

Verifiable

The robot behind Yandex Metrica, Yandex's web analytics product. Yandex documents several versions of it: one downloads site pages to check their availability, including the landing pages of Yandex Direct ads, and another downloads and caches CSS styles so pages can be rendered in Webvisor. The robot table records that it ignores the directives set for it in robots.txt.

Operated by Yandex · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexYandexMetrika/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexMetrika/2.0; +http://yandex.com/bots yabs01)
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexMetrika/4.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)

How to verify

Reverse-DNS check a client IP

dig -x <client-ip> +short   # expect a hostname matching *.yandex.ru

Reverse-DNS suffixes: *.yandex.ru, *.yandex.net, *.yandex.com

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Service traffic you configured — robots.txt does not apply

  • 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.