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Ahrefs Site Audit

GoodBotVerifiedSEOBOT

Operated by Ahrefs Docs

What is Ahrefs Site Audit?

Generated from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

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.

Details

Bot Name
Ahrefs Site Audit
Slug
ahrefssiteaudit
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified by Cloudflare
Category
SEO
Operator
Ahrefs

User-Agent Patterns

AhrefsSiteAudit

Full User-Agent Strings

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.

How to Block / Whitelist

Block Ahrefs Site Audit

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: /

Whitelist Ahrefs Site Audit

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

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Traffic & Trends

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Links & References

Data Sources

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Last updated: May 26, 2026