About the SquarespellAuditor crawler

If you saw SquarespellAuditor/1.0 in your server logs, someone used the free Squarespell Auditor to check your site. Here is exactly what it does.

• It runs only when a person requests an audit. It doesn't crawl the web on its own.
• It reads robots.txt, sitemap.xml, llms.txt, the home page and at most 10 other pages, plus a quick status check of up to 20 internal links.
• It respects robots.txt for every page except the single home page the person asked about.
• Each request times out after 10 seconds and pages larger than 3 MB are cut off.
• Results for a site are cached for 24 hours, and repeat audits are rate-limited.
• It never logs in, submits forms or follows links to other websites.

To block it, add User-agent: SquarespellAuditor and Disallow: / to your robots.txt. Questions: info@squarespell.com.