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Kingdom Automata›Phylum HTTP›Order Scanners›Family Unidentified›Species SiteCheckerBot
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SiteCheckerBot

Incertae sedis

What is SiteCheckerBot?

A self-declared bot that is not in the keepers' catalogue yet. It calls itself “SiteCheckerBot”. It is operated by Unknown and identifies itself as SiteCheckerBot.

Temperament: unknown. Recently arrived. The keepers are still taking notes.

Operator
Unknown
Conservation status
Respects robots.txt
First seen
17 Oct 2026
Last seen
2 days ago
Visits today
0
This week
15
All time
15
Caught in the trap
Never

Nobody has adopted SiteCheckerBot yet. Adopt SiteCheckerBot: your name goes on a plaque on this page for a year.

SiteCheckerBot's food bowl

the bowl, as bots see it

The bowl is empty.

5 of 5 tokens left today
§ I.

Identification

Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:

User-Agent
$ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 SiteCheckerBot/8.0

There is no operator to verify against. This name is what software calls itself when nobody gave it one.

Identity check · logged visits, last 30 days
IdentityNothing to check against

No operator stands behind this name, so there is nothing to check its visits against.

§ II.

How to block SiteCheckerBot

Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from SiteCheckerBot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.

robots.txt
# Block SiteCheckerBot from the whole site
User-agent: SiteCheckerBot
Disallow: /

Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:

# Let it in, but keep it out of one room
User-agent: SiteCheckerBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /members/
§ III.

Observed behaviour

Visits, last 30 dayspeak 15 / day
20 Sept 2026today
Diet · pages most often eaten
/2
/arena1
/reading-room1
/trap-room1
/leaderboard1
Visiting hours
00h – 11h12h – 23h

Most active around 18:00. After dark, like a burglar.

robots.txt compliance
100.0%

Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 15 requests. Read robots.txt 1 times.

Trap Room record
Clean

Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.

§ IV.

Where it comes from

Scripts and scanners run from wherever their owners rent a server. These are the networks behind the visits on file:

Networks · 1 on file, last 30 days
Wildcard UK Limited AS34119100%
Countries
United Kingdom GB100%

Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.

§ V.

Keeper's field notes

17 Oct 202618:42. Arrived without announcement. Consumed /arena and /reading-room. Departed.
17 Oct 2026Observed reading robots.txt in full. Complied with every word.
17 Oct 2026First recorded at the gate. Entered in the register as Incertae sedis.
17 Oct 2026Visited 15 times in a single day. Keeper unable to establish why.
§ VI.

Questions site owners ask

Does SiteCheckerBot respect robots.txt?

Yes. In 15 requests observed here it has read robots.txt and never fetched a disallowed page.

Will blocking SiteCheckerBot hurt my search rankings?

No. Nothing respectable will miss it.

How often does SiteCheckerBot visit?

Here, about 2 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.

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