Simple Bot Detector is supported at MetricsGate (via Google Tag Manager)

Simple Bot Detector

Community variable by mbaersch

What is Simple Bot Detector?

creates a marker for known rendering bots from search engines like Google, Bing, Baidu, Yandex or services like Lighthouse, Ahrefs and others that identify in the user agent string

Simple Bot Detector variable is created by mbaersch. Once you set up server side tagging with MetricsGate, you can use this variable with Google Tag Manager to enhance your data analytics.

This variable template is part of an open-source community, with its source code accessible on Github, and its documentation can also be found online.

You can check its version history below:

updated bot list 2023-08 (3 new user agents, 3 new variants).
updated bot list 2023-07 (3 new user agents).
updated bot list 2022-08 (1 new variant).
updated bot list 2022-07 (3 new user agents).
updated bot list 2022-04 (3 + 2 user agents added).
updated bot list 2021-05/06 (3 user agents added).
Initial release.

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