01 · Operator
Who operates 7Siters
- Company
- 7Siters project (7ooo.ru)
- Type
- Monitoring bot
- Official docs
- 7ooo.ru
02 · Behavior
What 7Siters does
It crawls sites to count domains and internal pages. The project says it has collected billions of page addresses. It publishes statistics on internet segments.
03 · Impact
Why 7Siters matters for your site
If you allow it
- Research use, not scraping for resale
- Light traffic
If you block it
- No benefit to site owners
- robots.txt support is not documented
04 · Allow
How to allow 7Siters
robots.txt
User-agent: 7Siters
Allow: /Cloudflare
# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "7Siters")
Action: Skip › All Super Bot Fight Mode rules
# Also check Security › Bots: "Block AI bots" can block it regardless of robots.txt.WordPress
# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: 7Siters
Allow: /nginx
# nginx serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure no rule like this blocks it:
# if ($http_user_agent ~* "7Siters") { return 403; }Apache
# Apache serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure .htaccess has no rule like this:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} 7Siters [NC]
# RewriteRule .* - [F,L]05 · Block
How to block 7Siters
Start with robots.txt. If 7Siters keeps showing up in your logs, block it at your CDN or web server.
robots.txt
User-agent: 7Siters
Disallow: /Cloudflare
# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "7Siters")
Action: BlockWordPress
# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: 7Siters
Disallow: /nginx
# In your server { } block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "7Siters") {
return 403;
}Apache
# .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} 7Siters [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfModule>06 · User agents
User agents we see for 7Siters
The user agent published by the operator:
7Siters/1.2 ( https://7ooo.ru/siters/ )07 · Verification
Is it really 7Siters?
7Siters’s operator publishes no IP ranges or hostnames, so requests cannot be verified. Treat the user agent as a claim, and watch your logs for unusual request rates.
FAQ
Questions about 7Siters
What is 7Siters?
It is a crawler from a research project at 7ooo.ru that gathers statistics on websites and pages.
How do I opt out of 7Siters?
The project suggests blocking it in .htaccess or placing a file named 7Siters.txt containing "delete" in your site root.
Last reviewed Oct 7, 2026