Decide whether SondelAuditBot can read your site.

Current status and setup

Sondel operates a free help-centre audit at app.sondel.cx/audit. It uses SondelAuditBot/1.0 (+https://sondel.cx/audit-crawler) and is separate from the tenant knowledge crawler. A temporary pause can stop new audit starts. It does not change these crawl limits or site controls.

Submitted location

A public HTTP or HTTPS host and path. The crawler uses ports 80 and 443.

Access boundary

The crawler does not log in, work around a bot block, or read outside the submitted host and path.

Site control

Your robots.txt rules and direct block requests decide whether the crawler may read the site.

Crawl limits can produce a partial result

The audit reads at most 100 pages, 10 MiB in total, and 1 MiB per page. The crawl stops after 120 seconds or at depth three.

It uses one connection per host and waits at least one second between page reads. A longer robots.txt Crawl-delay takes priority, so a delay can consume the run time limit. It checks robots.txt first and refuses an unreadable or incomplete robots file.

Block audits in robots.txt

User-agent: SondelAuditBot
Disallow: /

This blocks the audit crawler. Keep any separate rules for other crawlers. A partial path block excludes those pages from the audit.

Ask Sondel to block your host

Email hello@sondel.cx with the public host you want blocked. You do not need to prove control to request a block. Removing a block requires proof of control. Sondel does not publish visitor reports or use audit content in tenant knowledge or model training.