What is Readable?
Direct Answer: Readable is a text analysis tool operated by Added Bytes Ltd, focused on clarity and plain language.
Readable is a collection of text analysis tools that spider customers' websites, find the content of each page, analyze it, and present it to the customer. It provides readability scores, spelling and grammar checking, style issues, clichés, profanity, and actionable insights to improve content.
User-Agent Identification
The following user-agent strings identify Readable in your live traffic data:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36 Readable/1.1.4
robots.txt Rules for Readable
Respects robots.txt: No
This bot does not commit to following robots.txt
Readable does not officially follow robots.txt directives. The only reliable way to control access is through server-side blocking (IP filtering, user-agent rules in your web server config) combined with log monitoring to verify effectiveness.
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Crawl Behavior
Frequency:Not Documented
Request Pattern:Not Documented
Official Documentation Quotes
"Readable is an online toolkit that helps writers everywhere improve their readability and bring their audience closer."
Crawl Activity Index
Relative crawl activity for Readable over the past 28 days. Higher values indicate increased crawling intensity compared to the period baseline.
View recent activity data (last 7 days)
| Date | Activity Index |
|---|---|
| Mar 28, 2026 | 0.0 |
| Mar 29, 2026 | 0.0 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | 0.0 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 0.0 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | 0.0 |
| Apr 2, 2026 | 0.0 |
| Apr 3, 2026 | 0.0 |
Source: Cloudflare Radar
Why track Readable traffic?
Identify and classify unknown crawler activity. Readable may appear in your live traffic data with varying frequency. Tracking its behavior helps you decide whether to allow, throttle, or block it based on actual data.
Protect your crawl budget. Every bot request consumes server resources. Understanding what Readable crawls helps you prioritize the crawlers that matter.
Log Verification
To verify Readable traffic in your live traffic data:
- Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
- Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by Added Bytes Ltd)
- Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
- Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available
Note: Observed behavior in production environments may differ from official documentation. Live traffic monitoring provides the only reliable verification of actual bot behavior.
Undocumented Information
The following information is not officially documented for Readable:
- crawl frequency
- IP verification
- JavaScript rendering
- user-agent variations
Official Documentation
View Official Readable Documentation →
Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.