Adding your first site

Add a site

1. Open Apps → ADA Scanner → Sites.
2. Click Add site.
3. Enter the canonical URL (https://acme.gov, not http://acme.gov or with a trailing slash).
4. Pick how deep to crawl: just the homepage, the top 50 pages, the top 500, or the whole sitemap.

Verifying ownership

Some advanced features (scheduled scans, badge embedding, AI suggestions) require verifying you own the site — we want to be sure you're not scanning sites you don't have permission to scan.

Crawl behavior

• We respect robots.txt for any path that disallows our user agent (HelloCivicBot).
• We honor <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> and X-Robots-Tag headers.
• We rate-limit ourselves to ~1 request per second per host by default.