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Siteimprove Crawl

Name: Siteimprove Crawl
Author: Siteimprove

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Siteimprove content suite (i.e. Quality Assurance, Accessibility, Policy, and SEO). Crawls run on ports are 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS. Operated by Siteimprove.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

SEO

What is Siteimprove Crawl?

Siteimprove Crawl is a web crawler operated by Siteimprove. Siteimprove content suite (i.e. Quality Assurance, Accessibility, Policy, and SEO). Crawls run on ports are 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS.

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

Identification

Bot name

Siteimprove Crawl

Operator

Siteimprove

Why it crawls your site

Siteimprove Crawl crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by Siteimprove 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 Siteimprove Crawl

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for SiteCheck-sitecrawl 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 Siteimprove Crawl from crawling your entire site
User-agent: SiteCheck-sitecrawl
Disallow: /

# Allow Siteimprove Crawl full access
User-agent: SiteCheck-sitecrawl
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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