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Readable

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Readable is a collection of text analysis tools, primarily focused on clarity and plain language. We spider customers' websites, find the content of each page, analyse it, and present that to the customer. Operated by Added Bytes Ltd.

Operator website ↗

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Assessment

Accessibility

What is Readable?

Readable is a web crawler operated by Added Bytes Ltd. Readable is a collection of text analysis tools, primarily focused on clarity and plain language. We spider customers' websites, find the content of each page, analyse it, and present that to the customer.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Readable

Operator

Added Bytes Ltd

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Readable crawls websites to test and verify website accessibility compliance. It is operated by Added Bytes Ltd as part of their accessibility testing infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Readable

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Readable/ in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Readable from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Readable/
Disallow: /

# Allow Readable full access
User-agent: Readable/
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Readable/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Added Bytes Ltd's documentation.