: Tumblr is visiting my blog? I have created a blog on Tumblr a few days ago. Looking over the statistics, it seems that Tumblr itself is visiting my website, using different browsers. What is

@Courtney195

How do you think internal Tumblr staff patrol their own sites? By visiting them to review content.

I would not take it personally. Most likely someone clicking through thousands of posts per day. Given the array of browsers it could all be quality assurance checks or the IP address is just a firewall gateway masking employee access.

But after saying that my gut tells me that if all of the screen sizes are 1024x768 then it is most likely an internal quality assurance crawler that is just doing it’s rounds across all of the Tumblr sites to make sure themes don’t break or other QA related tasks. I bet the crawler doing this just compiles screenshots or snapshots of page content, and then some QA person cracks open a soda and clicks through piles of them looking for content breaking. Content breaks in a template? Well then that goes back to design & engineering to fix the issue.

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@Si4351233

Did you possibly ask them for support?

The Whois info for that IP is whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=66.6.40.249?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2.

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@Kevin317

I couldn't find anything that indicated that Tumblr has a crawler. And typically "good" crawlers usually identify themselves as such. So this is probably just someone at Tumblr either viewing or reviewing your blog.

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