WintractionAuditBot

WintractionAuditBot is the crawler behind Wintraction's AI-visibility audit. When a business runs an audit of its own brand, the bot reads a few of that brand's public web pages so we can check how the content is likely to be understood, cited, and recommended by AI search platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity.

It only visits websites that a Wintraction customer has asked us to audit, and it does not build a general search index.

Every request is sent with this User-Agent string:

WintractionAuditBot/1.0 (+https://wintraction.ai/bot)

Requests also carry a x-wintraction-audit request header so they can be recognised even if the User-Agent is rewritten by a proxy.

• Fetches a small number of public pages per audit (typically the homepage and a handful of key pages).
• Respects robots.txt; disallowed paths are never fetched.
• Requests pages at a low rate and does not submit forms, log in, or execute scripts.
• Does not download media files or crawl links beyond the pages needed for the audit.

If your security layer (Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Akamai, or similar) challenges or blocks automated clients, add an allow rule that matches either of the following:

• The User-Agent contains WintractionAuditBot, or
• The request includes the x-wintraction-audit header.

Place the rule above any bot-fight, managed-challenge, or rate-limiting rules so the audit request is served the same HTML a normal visitor would receive.

If you have questions about WintractionAuditBot or want a site excluded from audits, contact us at [email protected].