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.

Type

Search Engine Crawler
Indexes web content for search engine results

Expected Behavior

Search engine crawlers systematically index websites to power search engines by discovering, analyzing, and cataloging web content. They visit sites on dynamic schedules determined by algorithmic priorities rather than fixed intervals. Crawl frequency depends on factors like site popularity, content freshness, update frequency, and domain authority. These crawlers typically respect robots.txt rules and throttle their requests to avoid overwhelming servers.

Detail

Operated By Baidu
Last Updated 17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

6%
6% of top websites are blocking Baiduspider
Learn How →

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

Science
Reference
People and Society
Books and Literature
Real Estate
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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?

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.

How Do I Block All Search Engine Crawlers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new search engine crawlers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt →
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.

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