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Yibbitbot

You probably found this page because Yibbitbot showed up in your server logs. Here's what it is and how to stop it.

Last updated 28 July 2026

What it is

Yibbitbot runs an automated technical check on public business websites — page speed, SEO tags, broken links, accessibility checks, JavaScript errors — so web designers using Yibbit can see which sites have problems worth fixing.

Its full user-agent string is:

Yibbitbot/1.0 (+https://yibbit.app/bot)

What it does on your site

Fetches /robots.txt first, every time.
Fetches your homepage.
Fetches your sitemap, if you have one.
Sends a HEAD request to a handful of your own internal links to check for broken ones.
Loads the homepage once in a headless browser to take a screenshot and run an accessibility check.

That's a single visit of roughly a dozen requests, spaced at least 1 second apart. We don't log in, don't submit forms, don't follow links off your domain, and don't collect data about your customers or visitors.

How to block it

Add this to your robots.txt and we'll stop:

User-agent: Yibbitbot
Disallow: /

We check robots.txt before every fetch and honour Disallow for both Yibbitbot and *. We also honour Crawl-delay. If your robots.txt is unreachable or returns a server error, we treat that as "don't crawl" rather than assuming permission.

Blocking the crawler stops us looking at your site. If you also want your business removed from Yibbit entirely, use the removal form — that's a different thing and it's permanent.

Rate and timing

We never send parallel requests to the same host, and there's a minimum gap between hits. If you return 429 or 503, we stop immediately and don't retry — the audit just fails, which is the right outcome for us and for you.

Something's wrong

If Yibbitbot is causing you a problem — too much traffic, hitting something it shouldn't, or ignoring a rule we say we honour — please tell us at [email protected]. We'll fix it, and we'd genuinely rather hear about it than not.

Anything claiming to be Yibbitbot from a different user-agent, or ignoring the rules above, isn't us.

Who we are

Yibbit is operated by Josiah Bedford, trading as a sole trader.

Postal address: 6080 N Marks Ave, APT 126, Fresno, CA 93711, USA

General enquiries: [email protected]
Data protection and privacy requests: [email protected]