Crawler

ProvenVisibleBot

If you found this address in your server logs, this page is why. ProvenVisibleBot fetches pages of a website when its owner asks us to audit it.

How to recognise it

The user agent is exactly:

ProvenVisibleBot/0.1 (+https://provenvisible.com/bot)

What it does

• Fetches pages that are already public. It never signs in and never sees anything a visitor could not.
• Reads robots.txt first and skips every path you disallow.
• Waits between requests and retries at most twice on errors: it is built to be boring traffic.
• Runs when a site owner starts an audit, not continuously.

Why it visited your site

Someone registered your domain in ProvenVisible and started an audit. Our terms allow registering only a site you own or manage. If you believe that is not the case here, block the bot below and email us: we will remove the registration.

How to block it

Add this to your robots.txt; the next run will honour it:

User-agent: ProvenVisibleBot
Disallow: /

Blocking costs the site owner their audit, so tell them too. Questions: contact us.