Who we are
App-Kit builds web tools for developers and site owners, including a 400-point SEO audit. Our studies run on the same audit engine and are published on the blog together with the method and open data.
AppKitResearchBot
The crawler identifies itself as:
AppKitResearchBot/1.0 (+https://app-kit.ru/research)If you see it in your logs, your site was drawn into a random study sample.
What we collect
- public pages only, available without logging in or bypassing protection;
- at most 10 pages per site, crawl depth 2;
- at most one request per second to any site;
- robots.txt rules for our User-Agent are respected;
- we publish only aggregates across the sample — shares of sites with a given issue. Data on individual sites is never published.
How to opt out
Add a rule for our crawler to robots.txt and it will not fetch your pages in future runs:
User-agent: AppKitResearchBot
Disallow: /Or email hello@app-kit.ru and we will remove your domain from the sample.
Published studies
State of SEO on the Russian web 2026: 901 sites in the .ru and .рф zones, 20 technical SEO metrics, breakdowns by site type and size.