CriteoBot
What is CriteoBot?
About
CriteoBot is Criteo's web crawler that visits and analyzes web pages to understand content and user behavior patterns for serving personalized advertising campaigns. You can see how often CriteoBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.
Expected Behavior
The behavior of intelligence gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.
Type
Detail
| Operated By | Criteo |
| Last Updated | 2 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block CriteoBot?
Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.
How Do I Block CriteoBot?
You can block CriteoBot 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 | CriteoBot/0.1 (+https://www.criteo.com/criteo-crawler/) |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: CriteoBot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/criteobot
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.