HandsOnTechAuditBot

HandsOnTechAuditBot is the automated fetch layer behind the free audit tools atHandsOnTech. It runs only when a visitor submits a URL on one of those tools. It does not crawl the open web on its own schedule and it does not probe private networks.

What the bot does

When someone runs an audit, the service fetches the submitted public URL the way a browser and search crawler would: HTML document, response headers, robots.txt rules, XML sitemap reference, and a limited set of linked public assets needed to score performance, accessibility, security headers, technical SEO, UX and AI visibility signals. Results feed the on-page report the visitor sees in the tool UI.

The bot identifies itself in request headers where practical so server logs can distinguish audit traffic from ordinary visitors. It respects published robots.txt directives on the target site, including rules aimed at AI crawlers, because our own AEO positioning depends on following the same standards we recommend to clients.

What the bot does not do

• Sign in to applications or bypass authentication walls
• Submit forms, post comments, or place orders
• Intentionally crawl beyond the scope of a single requested audit
• Harvest email addresses or personal data from pages
• Execute destructive requests (DELETE, PUT, or administrative actions)

If a page requires a login, lives behind a staging firewall, or returns an error to unauthenticated clients, the audit reports that limitation rather than attempting to circumvent it.

Relationship to AI crawlers

HandsOnTechAuditBot is separate from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and similar AI training or retrieval agents. Those bots follow your site's robots.txt independently. Our marketing site at handsontech.io explicitly allows major AI crawlers on commercial content while keeping portfolio case studies human-only. The audit bot only visits URLs that a human pastes into a tool.

For website owners

Seeing HandsOnTechAuditBot in your logs usually means someone, often your own team, ran a free audit on your page. If you want a domain excluded from on-demand audits, contact us through thecontact page with the domain and reason. We honour legitimate exclusion requests for corporate domains you control.

For questions about data handling, see our privacy policy. For the human team behind the tools, visit about HandsOnTech or explore our SEO & AEO services if you want help fixing what the audit finds.