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SilktideBot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Website accessibility, SEO, and content quality scanner Operated by Silktide.

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

What is SilktideBot?

SilktideBot is a web crawler operated by Silktide. Website accessibility, SEO, and content quality scanner

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

Identification

Bot name
SilktideBot
Operator
Silktide
Category
Accessibility
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
silktidebot
User-agent patterns
Silktide
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SilktideBot/1.1; +https://help.silktide.com/en/articles/4606146-silktidebot-our-site-scanning-bot)
Main use cases
Web crawlingData collection

Why it crawls your site

SilktideBot crawls websites to test and verify website accessibility compliance. It is operated by Silktide 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 SilktideBot

Block it

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

# Allow SilktideBot full access
User-agent: Silktide
Allow: /
Allow & verify

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

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

CloudflareRadar
Last updated July 26, 2026