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.