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Ahrefs Site Audit

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AhrefsSiteAudit is used by website owners (paid and free) to look for issues on their websites Operated by Ahrefs.

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Assessment
SEO
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is Ahrefs Site Audit?

Ahrefs Site Audit is a web crawler operated by Ahrefs. AhrefsSiteAudit is used by website owners (paid and free) to look for issues on their websites

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

Identification

Bot name
Ahrefs Site Audit
Operator
Ahrefs
Category
SEO
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
ahrefssiteaudit
User-agent patterns
AhrefsSiteAudit
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsSiteAudit/6.1; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)
Main use cases
SEO analysisBacklink discoverySearch ranking monitoring

Why it crawls your site

Ahrefs Site Audit crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by Ahrefs as part of their SEO analysis infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Ahrefs Site Audit

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for AhrefsSiteAudit 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 Ahrefs Site Audit from crawling your entire site
User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Disallow: /

# Allow Ahrefs Site Audit full access
User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows AhrefsSiteAudit. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Ahrefs's documentation.

Traffic & trends

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Related bots

Other crawlers operated by Ahrefs.

Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated July 21, 2026

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