UAWatch monitors which AI crawlers, search engines, and SEO tools can access your website. It checks daily and emails you the moment anything changes — so you find out about access problems before they affect your rankings or AI visibility.
Enter your email address on the sign-in page. We'll send you a magic link — no password needed. Click the link in the email to access your dashboard.
From your dashboard, enter the full URL of the site you want to monitor using https:// (e.g. https://yourdomain.com or https://www.yourdomain.com) and click Subscribe. You'll be taken to Stripe to complete payment — £10/month per site.
As soon as your subscription is confirmed, UAWatch runs an immediate check against all 64 bots. Results are usually ready within 90 seconds.
UAWatch checks your site every night between 01:00 and 03:00 UTC. You'll only receive an email if something changes — a bot that was allowed is now blocked, or vice versa. No news is good news!
Each bot is tested in two ways:
The Access column combines both signals into an overall verdict:
The Reason column gives a plain English explanation — for example: "Blocked by server (403) — likely WAF or Cloudflare rule". This tells you where the block is coming from so you know what to fix.
Important: UAWatch tests using user-agent spoofing from our server IP. Firewalls like Cloudflare that verify both the user agent and the IP address may show false negatives — the bot appears allowed here but is blocked for real crawlers. If you see a 403 alongside an allowed robots.txt status, this is the most likely cause.
UAWatch monitors 64 bots across 9 categories:
Why does it matter if AI crawlers are blocked? If bots like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot can't access your site, your content won't appear in AI-generated answers. As AI search grows, this directly affects your visibility in tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
You can trigger a manual check at any time using the Re-check now button on the results page. This is rate-limited to once per hour per site to avoid overloading your server.
Alerts are sent to the email address you signed up with. You'll receive one email per site per night — but only if something changed. The email shows a table of what changed, from what status to what, with a direct link back to your dashboard.
If you have a question or something isn't working as expected, email us at support@uawatch.com.