How Our Scanner Works

The SignalixIQ scanner identifies itself as SignalixIQ-Scanner/1.0 and includes a contact URL in the User-Agent. It:

Obeys robots.txt — Disallow directives are honored before any fetch
Respects Crawl-Delay — minimum 500ms between requests, longer if specified
Limits scope — maximum 20 pages per scan
Caps concurrency — 2 simultaneous requests per domain
Times out gracefully — 15 second per-page timeout

What You Can Scan

Stores you own or operate
Stores you have explicit written permission to scan
Public e-commerce sites that allow crawler access via robots.txt

What You Cannot Scan

Amazon — explicitly disabled. Amazon's TOS prohibits scraping.
Sites that block our user-agent in robots.txt
Sites you do not own or have authorization to analyze
Sites containing PII, health, financial, or regulated data
Internal or private network URLs (we block these automatically)

Rate Limits

Free tier: 2 scans per month per IP. Paid tiers: unlimited scans subject to fair use. Abuse (e.g., scanning thousands of unrelated stores) triggers automatic suspension.

Reporting Abuse

If you believe SignalixIQ has scanned your site without authorization, email abuse@signalixiq.com. Include the IP address, timestamp, and URL paths from your access logs. We respond within 24 hours and will block future scans of your domain on request.

Blocking Our Crawler

To block SignalixIQ from your site, add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: SignalixIQ-Scanner
Disallow: /