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

Intelligence Gatherer
Searches for useful insights

Detail

Operated By Criteo
Last Updated 1 day ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

1%
1% of top websites are blocking CriteoBot
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Country of Origin

United States
CriteoBot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

Top Visited Website Categories

Pets and Animals
News
Food and Drink
Hobbies and Leisure
Jobs and Education
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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?

⚠️ 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 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/) 
# robots.txt
# This should block CriteoBot

User-agent: CriteoBot
Disallow: /