How to save bandwidth with Wordpress bots and heartbeat API

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Usage

Save bandwith usage on your hosting plan

HeartBeat API

Turn off HeartBeat completely

add_action( 'init', 'stop_heartbeat', 1 );
function stop_heartbeat() {
wp_deregister_script('heartbeat');
}

www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/limit-wordpress-heartbeat.htm

Bots

Edit your htacess file and add the following:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (bot|crawl|robot)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(bing|Google|msn|MSR|Twitter|Yandex) [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?.*$ "http\:\/\/127\.0\.0\.1" [R,L]

Alexa: ia_archiver

Moz: User-agent: dotbot

Moz: user-agent: rogerbot

With the above bots

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (bot|crawl|robot)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(bing|Google|msn|MSR|Twitter|Yandex|ia_archiver|dotbot|rogerbot) [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?.*$ "http\:\/\/127\.0\.0\.1" [R,L]