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TouchTargetsBot

Last updated 8 October 2026

Who we are

TouchTargets is SEO audit and website analytics software (SaaS). TouchTargetsBot is its website checker. It visits a website to audit its technical health: broken links, redirects, page titles, indexing settings, page speed and similar things.

Who we crawl

Only websites whose owners have asked us to and have proved they own the site. A customer must add a DNS record or a file to their own domain before we crawl it. We do not crawl the web at large, we do not build a search index, and we do not train AI models on what we read.

What it looks like in your logs

TouchTargetsBot/1.0 (+https://touchtargets.com/bot)

Requests come from our servers over HTTP or HTTPS. We check /robots.txt first and again during a crawl.

What we do and don’t do

  • We fetch pages, follow the links on them, and read your sitemaps.
  • We obey robots.txt, including Crawl-delay.
  • We go slowly by default (about one request per second at most, and slower if your site responds slowly or returns errors) and we stop if you ask.
  • We never sign in, submit forms, or change anything on your site.
  • Occasionally, when the site owner has asked for it, we check what your site serves to search and AI bots by making a request with one of their user agents. Those requests carry an X-TouchTargets-Diagnostic header so you can tell them apart.

How to slow us down or block us

Add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: TouchTargetsBot
Crawl-delay: 10

To block us completely:

User-agent: TouchTargetsBot
Disallow: /

We honour changes at the start of the next request. If you are not a TouchTargets customer and you see us on your site, tell us right away; it should not happen.

Contact

Use the contact page and choose "Something else", with your domain and the time of the request. We can remove your domain from our systems.