360Spider

What is 360Spider?

About

360Spider is a search engine crawler operated by Qihoo 360. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often 360Spider visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Search engine crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including popularity, the rate at which its content is updated, and the website's overall trustworthiness. Websites with fresh, high-quality content tend to be crawled more frequently, while less active or less reputable sites may be visited less often.

Type

Search Engine Crawler
Indexes web content for search engine results

Detail

Operated By Qihoo 360
Last Updated 11 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

2%
2% of top websites are blocking 360Spider
Learn How →

Country of Origin

China
360Spider normally visits from China

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Search Engine Crawlers

Top Visited Website Categories

Online Communities
Hobbies and Leisure
Computers and Electronics
People and Society
Real Estate
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Robots.txt

Should I Block 360Spider?

Probably not. Search engine crawlers power search engines, which are a useful way for users to discover your website. In fact, blocking search engine crawlers could severely reduce your traffic.

How Do I Block 360Spider?

You can block 360Spider or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

How Do I Block All Search Engine Crawlers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new search engine crawlers automatically.
User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36; 360Spider
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: 360Spider # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/360spider
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

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