bingbot

What is bingbot?

About

Bingbot is Microsoft's standard web crawler that handles most of Bing's crawling needs each day, indexing web content for Bing search results using both desktop and mobile variants. You can see how often bingbot 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 Microsoft
Last Updated 6 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

8%
8% of top websites are blocking bingbot
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Country of Origin

United States
bingbot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Search Engine Crawlers

Top Visited Website Categories

Online Communities
Hobbies and Leisure
Science
Shopping
Beauty and Fitness
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Robots.txt

Should I Block bingbot?

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 bingbot?

⚠️ 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 bingbot 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 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Chrome/116.0.1938.76 Safari/537.36 
# robots.txt
# This should block bingbot

User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /

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