KeystoneSurveyor
If you found
KeystoneSurveyor/1.0 in your logs, it was us. This page explains what it requested and how to stop it.What it is
KeystoneSurveyor is TEKWROUGHT’s survey tool. It measures how a public website performs and how it is secured, using the same checks a browser can make, so we can explain to a business what its systems are costing it. It makes one short visit per survey and never signs in, submits a form or tests your defences.
What one survey requests
- robots.txt
- Read first. If it disallows us, the survey stops there.
- Three timed requests
- To your home page, 800 ms apart, to measure time to first byte.
- One plain-HTTP request
- To confirm it redirects to HTTPS.
- One TLS handshake
- To read the certificate and protocol version.
- One page load
- Your home page in a browser, with the scripts and images it loads itself.
How to block it
Add the following to your robots.txt. It is read before every survey.
User-agent: KeystoneSurveyor Disallow: /
To be removed from our list entirely, email hello@tektonsystems.co.uk with your domain. More on how we work is on our security page.