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SiteMonitor

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A cloud-based crawler used by Siteimprove to audit websites for quality assurance, SEO performance, accessibility compliance, and policy adherence. Operated by Siteimprove.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is SiteMonitor?

SiteMonitor is the primary crawler operated by Siteimprove, a platform dedicated to digital experience management. It systematically traverses websites configured by Siteimprove customers to identify broken links, accessibility barriers, SEO optimization opportunities, and adherence to corporate content policies. By providing these automated insights, the bot enables organizations to maintain high standards of web governance and user experience.

Helpful — This bot provides essential diagnostic data to website owners to help them maintain site health, accessibility standards, and SEO rankings.

Identification

Bot name

SiteMonitor

Operator

Siteimprove

How we rated this bot

We could not confirm that it identifies itself honestly.

Names itself honestly

Not confirmed

Verified by Cloudflare

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Yes

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

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls websites to gather the raw data necessary for Siteimprove's reporting dashboard, which alerts site administrators to technical or content-related issues. It operates exclusively on behalf of authorized users who have added their domains to the Siteimprove platform. You can verify the operator by checking that the bot respects robots.txt directives and originates from known Siteimprove IP ranges, ensuring it only accesses sites where the owner has explicitly requested monitoring services.

Block or allow SiteMonitor

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; compatible; SiteMonitor/1.0) 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 SiteMonitor from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; compatible; SiteMonitor/1.0)
Disallow: /

# Allow SiteMonitor full access
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; compatible; SiteMonitor/1.0)
Allow: /