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NextrankAuditBot

The crawler behind Nextrank's website audits, and how to control it.

Last updated 1 October 2026

What it is

NextrankAuditBot is the crawler that runs when a Nextrank customer audits a website. It requests the pages of the site the customer chose, to check things like status codes, titles, headings, links and redirects. It does not run JavaScript, submit forms or log in.

Its user-agent string is: NextrankAuditBot/1.0 (+https://trynextrank.com/bot)

How it behaves

  • It reads your robots.txt first and obeys it, including Crawl-delay.
  • It rate-limits itself and backs off when your server answers slowly or with errors.
  • It only fetches public pages and refuses to follow links to private network addresses.
  • It only runs when a customer starts an audit; it does not crawl the web at large.

How to block it

Add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: NextrankAuditBot
Disallow: /

To slow it down instead, set Crawl-delay for the same user-agent.

Questions or abuse

If the bot is causing trouble or you did not expect it, email support@trynextrank.com with your domain and we will stop it. See also the privacy policy.