Dealing with bots

  • Resolved rudolfl

    (@rudolfl)


    1 month, 1 week ago

    Hi

    I assume bots are qualified as “visitors”. How do I stop a bot from accessing images on CDN and being excluded from my quota?

    When I use stand-alone CDN service, lie CloudFlare, BunnyCDN, etc… there is an option to block certain user agents. Optimole does not expose such an interface. Is there a way to block certain bots? I would still like those bots to access my site, but want to prevent them from accessing images. Since images are “off-site”, I am unable to do so on my server.

    Rudolf

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  • Plugin Author Optimole

    (@optimole)

    Hi,

    We do exclude bots already by their User Agents and they are not counted against the quota.

    I hope this helps.

    Thread Starter rudolfl

    (@rudolfl)

    That is great!

    Just to double-check, do you exclude chatgpt bot?

    Rudolf

    Plugin Support Stefan Cotitosu

    (@stefancotitosu)

    Hi Rudolf,

    That’s right, the ChatGPT bot doesn’t interfere with the quota.

    Best regards,

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