About the ObrisAudit crawler
If you found ObrisAudit in your server logs, this page explains who it is,
why it read your site, exactly what it does, and how to ask it not to come back.
Who it is
ObrisAudit is the reader behind Obris Audit, a free website score made by Obris Launch, a small marketing team in Oklahoma. It identifies itself on every request it makes:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ObrisAudit/1.0; +https://audit.obris.co/bot)
Why it read your site
Somebody typed your address into the scanner and asked for a score. Usually that is the owner of the site, or someone working with them. The scanner never chooses sites on its own and never wanders from one site to another. It reads the site it was asked about and stops.
What it does
- Reads up to about 14 public pages of one site, one request at a time, with a pause between them. It never sends two requests to your server at once.
- Reads
robots.txtfirst and follows it. Pages you have marked off limits are not read. - Reads the stylesheets your homepage links to, up to a small fixed amount, so it can check how the site presents itself. It never reads more than about three megabytes of any single page.
- Asks Google's PageSpeed service about your homepage's speed, the same way you could yourself.
- Reads only what any visitor's browser would receive. It never logs in, never submits forms, never follows links off your site, and never reads anything a search engine could not.
- Each address can be scanned at most three times in a day, whoever asks.
One thing worth knowing
Some hosting firewalls and security plugins turn away any request that identifies itself as a crawler. When that happens, ObrisAudit tries once more with an ordinary browser's name, so that the person who asked for a score still gets one. It does that at most a few times per site, and it counts the refusal in the report, because a site that turns away an identified reader is usually turning away the AI assistants too, and that is worth telling the owner.
If you would rather it did not, the rule below stops it before that first request, and it will not try again as anything else.
How to keep it away
Add this to your robots.txt. ObrisAudit checks it before reading anything, and a site that
says no is not scanned at all, whoever asks:
User-agent: ObrisAudit Disallow: /
If you would like a scan that has already run removed, or have any question about this, write to info@obris.co with the site's address.
What is kept
The scan reads public pages and keeps the score and the findings so the person who asked can open them again. Nothing from your site is sold or passed on, and the report is removed after a fixed time. The details are in the privacy notice.