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TrustedSite

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Crawl a customer website to perform basic validation Operated by TrustedSite.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Academic Research

What is TrustedSite?

TrustedSite operates a specialized crawler designed to audit websites for security vulnerabilities, business legitimacy, and merchant reliability. By scanning pages, the bot evaluates whether a site meets specific trust standards, allowing the operator to issue certifications and trust badges that help businesses increase conversion rates. It functions as a verification tool for e-commerce platforms to demonstrate safety to potential customers.

Helpful — This bot performs automated security and compliance audits to help website owners display trust badges and improve consumer confidence.

Identification

Bot name

TrustedSite

Operator

TrustedSite

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

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls websites to perform automated security checks and verify that the site owner is adhering to the standards required for TrustedSite certification. This data is used to update the status of trust badges displayed on the client's website, ensuring that security information remains accurate and current. Site owners can verify the bot by checking for the 'TrustedSite/1.0' user-agent and ensuring their server allows traffic from TrustedSite's IP ranges to prevent certification failures.

Block or allow TrustedSite

Block it

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

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