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.

Type

Search Engine Crawler
Indexes web content for search engine results

Detail

Operated By Baidu
Last Updated 1 day ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

6%
6% of top websites are blocking Baiduspider
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Country of Origin

China
Baiduspider normally visits from China

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Search Engine Crawlers

Top Visited Website Categories

Books and Literature
Pets and Animals
Internet and Telecom
News
Finance
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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?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

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) 
# robots.txt
# This should block Baiduspider

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

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