AhrefsSiteAudit

What is AhrefsSiteAudit?

About

AhrefsSiteAudit is a technical SEO crawler that analyzes websites to identify and flag over 170 technical and on-page SEO issues, providing detailed recommendations and performance metrics for website owners. You can see how often AhrefsSiteAudit 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

SEO Crawler
Discovers search engine optimization insights

Detail

Operated By Ahrefs
Last Updated 17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking AhrefsSiteAudit
Learn How →

Country of Origin

United States
AhrefsSiteAudit normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from SEO Crawlers

Top Visited Website Categories

Health
Travel and Transportation
Food and Drink
Business and Industrial
Computers and Electronics
How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
Use the WordPress plugin, Node.js package, or API to get started in seconds.
Set Up Agent Analytics →

Robots.txt

Should I Block AhrefsSiteAudit?

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 AhrefsSiteAudit?

You can block AhrefsSiteAudit 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.

How Do I Block All SEO Crawlers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new SEO crawlers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt →
User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.5359.128 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; AhrefsSiteAudit/6.1; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/site-audit) 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/ahrefssiteaudit
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.

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