StatableScanner

TL;DR

• It is a research crawler operated by Statable
• It reads public pages only — no logins, no forms, no paywalled or member content
• It obeys robots.txt and never tries to work around a block
• It waits at least 2 seconds between requests to a site
• It measures which third-party services a page loads, not who your visitors are
• It never submits data to your site and never attempts to log in

How to identify it

The crawler sends this exact user agent string:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; StatableScanner/0.1; +https://statable.com/scanner-bot; scanner@statable.com)

Anything claiming to be StatableScanner from a different address is not us. The user agent always carries both this page and a working contact address.

What it does

Statable publishes research on what websites load before a visitor has consented to anything — trackers, analytics tags, fonts, embeds and the cookies they set. To measure that, the scanner opens a page the way a browser would and records which third-party servers the page contacts and when.

The subject of the measurement is your page's own behaviour. We do not collect information about your visitors, we do not have access to it, and a scan tells us nothing about who visits your site.

What it requests

• /robots.txt, before anything else
• Your home page, and in some runs a small number of additional public pages
• The sub-resources those pages reference — scripts, stylesheets, images — because that is what the measurement is about

It moves the mouse pointer and scrolls, because a large family of performance plugins defers third-party scripts until one of those events. It never clicks, never presses a key, and never interacts with a consent banner or any other control.

How to block it

Add this to your robots.txt. The scanner reads robots.txt before every site and honours it:

User-agent: StatableScanner
Disallow: /

A blocked domain is recorded as blocked and is never loaded. It is not retried under another name, from another address, or with a different user agent, and a block is never treated as a signal to look harder.

If you would rather we skipped your site without editing robots.txt, email us and we will add it to a permanent exclusion list.

If we published something about your site

Our findings are behavioural measurements taken on a specific date — what a browser observed your page load — and they are not legal conclusions about your site. Sites change, and a measurement can also simply be wrong.

If you believe a published result about your site is inaccurate, write to us. We keep the underlying evidence for every scan, including the full network record, and we will check it against your description and correct the record if it is wrong.

Contact

Write to scanner@statable.com for anything about the crawler: exclusion requests, questions about a published result, or a complaint about its behaviour. For everything else, support@statable.com reaches our normal support.

Statable is operated by Key Arg B.V., registered in the Netherlands.