SiteCockpit Monitoring
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What is SiteCockpit Monitoring?
SiteCockpit Monitoring is a specialized crawler operated by SiteCockpit, a platform dedicated to digital accessibility. The bot systematically scans websites to evaluate them against WCAG guidelines and regional legal requirements such as the German BFSG and BITV. By identifying technical barriers, it provides site administrators with actionable insights to improve inclusivity and ensure their digital presence is accessible to all users.
Identification
SiteCockpitHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- Where did Perplexity say they would obey robots.txt ... - Hacker News
- How to handle AI crawlers that ignore robots.txt - LinkedIn
- 20 Common Robots.txt Issues (and How to Avoid Them) - seoClarity
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- How to Use robots.txt Disallow to Block Crawlers ...
Why it crawls your site
The bot crawls websites specifically to perform automated audits of their accessibility status. It gathers data on page structure, image alt-text, and navigation elements to generate compliance reports and optimization recommendations within the SiteCockpit dashboard. Site owners can verify the bot's activity by checking the user-agent string against the official documentation provided at sitecockpit.com.
Block or allow SiteCockpit Monitoring
Add a Disallow rule for SiteCockpit 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 SiteCockpit Monitoring from crawling your entire site User-agent: SiteCockpit Disallow: / # Allow SiteCockpit Monitoring full access User-agent: SiteCockpit Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows SiteCockpit. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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