Readable

What is Readable?

About

Readable is a website analysis crawler that scans customers' websites to extract and analyze text content for readability, clarity, and plain language compliance, providing comprehensive content optimization insights. You can see how often Readable visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including the search keywords it ranks for, and how many other websites link to it.

Type

Detail

Insights

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from SEO Crawlers

Robots.txt

Should I Block Readable?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an SEO service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

How Do I Block Readable?

You can block Readable or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# robots.txt

User-agent: Readable # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/readable
Disallow: /

References

• https://readable.com/features/websites/