DealerCitedAudit
DealerCitedAudit is the crawler DealerCited uses to check whether a dealership’s website can be read by AI search engines. It reads a handful of public pages, the way a plain crawler would, and reports what it found to the dealership.
How it identifies itself
Every request carries this user agent:
DealerCitedAudit/1.0 (+https://dealercited.ai/bot)
The robots.txt token is DealerCitedAudit.
It sends every request from one of two fixed addresses, used for nothing else:
100.61.47.62 our live service 54.221.234.191 our test environment
Every request is also signed with Web Bot Auth (HTTP Message Signatures), so bot protection that checks signatures can confirm it really comes from us. Our public key is at /.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory.
What it fetches
For each audit it reads your robots.txt, your sitemap, your llms.txt, your homepage and one inventory page. It checks the dealership’s own site and the sites of the competitors that dealership compares itself against.
It reads raw pages without running JavaScript. When a dealership’s own homepage builds key details with JavaScript, it may load that page again with its JavaScript running, along with the scripts and images the page itself asks for. Requests to your site carry the same name, addresses and signature. It never fills in forms, logs in, or follows links beyond those pages.
It obeys robots.txt
It reads your robots.txt first and skips anything your rules close to it. To keep it off your site entirely, add:
User-agent: DealerCitedAudit Disallow: /
If you do, it stops there. It never switches to another user agent to get around your rules, and the dealership’s report says the audit couldn’t run.
Letting it past bot protection
Bot protection from your CDN or website provider can answer our auditor with a challenge page instead of your site. When that happens, the dealership’s report shows the checks as “couldn’t run” rather than guessing.
To let it through, allow requests whose user agent contains DealerCitedAudit and that
come from 100.61.47.62 or 54.221.234.191. Matching the name and the
address keeps out anyone else who borrows the name. If a website provider runs your site, send
them this page.
Questions or problems
If the auditor is causing you trouble, write to [email protected] with your site’s address and we’ll look into it.