SiteAuditBot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Check for over 130 common website issues and get special reports about your site’s crawlability, use of markups, internal linking, speed/performance, HTTPS, and international SEO. Operated by Semrush.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

SEO

What is SiteAuditBot?

SiteAuditBot is a web crawler operated by Semrush. Check for over 130 common website issues and get special reports about your site’s crawlability, use of markups, internal linking, speed/performance, HTTPS, and international SEO.

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

Identification

Bot name

SiteAuditBot

Operator

Semrush

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

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

SiteAuditBot crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by Semrush 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 SiteAuditBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for SiteAuditBot 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 SiteAuditBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: SiteAuditBot
Disallow: /

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