About our scanner
If you found this address in your server logs, one of our checks visited your website. This page explains exactly what it did and how to stop it.
What it is
We run a checker that looks for technical faults on online shops — things like a page telling Google to index a different URL, or the same product listed under six addresses. When it finds something serious we sometimes write to the business to tell them, with the evidence. That is the whole purpose. It is not collecting content, prices, images or personal data, and nothing it reads is republished.
What it actually does
- User-agent
- BVDWorksVisibilityBot/0.1 (+https://bvdworks.com/bot)
- Requests per site
- Around 25, once
- Rate
- One request per second, never concurrent
- Requested
- Home page, robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemaps, and a sample of about a dozen product pages
- Never requested
- Carts, checkouts, account areas, forms, anything behind a login
- Method
- GET only
- Data kept
- The faults found and the evidence for them. No personal data, no page archives
How to block it
Add this to your robots.txt and it will not come back:
User-agent: BVDWorksVisibilityBot Disallow: /
Or email [email protected] with your domain and we will add it to our permanent do-not-scan list. You do not need to give a reason, and we will not ask for one.
Complaints
If the scanner has caused you any trouble at all, write to the same address and a person will read it.
bvd — bvdworks.com