Baiduspider
What is Baiduspider?
About
Baiduspider is Baidu's web crawler that indexes web content for China's largest search engine, crawling and analyzing websites to provide search results for Baidu users. You can see how often Baiduspider 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.
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Detail
| Operated By | Baidu |
| Last Updated | 16 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Search Engine Crawlers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block Baiduspider?
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 Baiduspider?
You can block Baiduspider 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.
| User Agent String | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html) |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: Baiduspider # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/baiduspider
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.