SiteCheck-sitecrawl

What is SiteCheck-sitecrawl?

About

SiteCheck-sitecrawl is Siteimprove's crawler that performs comprehensive website audits for their content intelligence platform, scanning sites for accessibility, SEO, quality assurance, and digital governance compliance. You can see how often SiteCheck-sitecrawl 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 SiteCheck-sitecrawl?

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 SiteCheck-sitecrawl?

You can block SiteCheck-sitecrawl 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.

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: SiteCheck-sitecrawl # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/sitecheck-sitecrawl
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

References

• https://siteimprove.com/