Overview
Accessible Web Bot is a monitoring bot from Accessible Web used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is AccessibleWebBot; related patterns include Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AccessibleWebBot/1.0; +https://accessibleweb.com/bot/); a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; AccessibleWebBot/1.0; +https://accessibleweb.com/bot/) HeadlessChrome/81.0.4044.0 Safari/537.36 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AccessibleWebBot/1.0; +https://accessibleweb.com/bot/).
Accessible Web Bot is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
Accessible Web Bot is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
Accessible Web Bot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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AccessibleWebBot - Aliases
- Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AccessibleWebBot/1.0; +https://accessibleweb.com/bot/)
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; AccessibleWebBot/1.0; +https://accessibleweb.com/bot/) HeadlessChrome/81.0.4044.0 Safari/537.36 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AccessibleWebBot/1.0; +https://accessibleweb.com/bot/) - Robots Token
- AccessibleWebBot
- Identity Type
- Verified bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify Accessible Web Bot by matching `AccessibleWebBot` to Accessible Web evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- Accessible Web
- Purpose
- Monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Accessible Web Bot is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- Accessible Web Bot traffic is primarily detected by the `AccessibleWebBot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AccessibleWebBot/1.0; +https://accessibleweb.com/bot/)`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; AccessibleWebBot/1.0; +https://accessibleweb.com/bot/) HeadlessChrome/81.0.4044.0 Safari/537.36 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AccessibleWebBot/1.0; +https://accessibleweb.com/bot/)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Accessible Web infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- Accessible Web Bot has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Do not block
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.
Relationships
- Operator
- Accessible Web Checked 2026-06-23
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.