Mail.RU_Bot

What is Mail.RU_Bot?

About

Mail.RU_Bot fetches web content and metadata for email previews and link processing on behalf of the Mail.ru email service for Russian users. You can see how often Mail.RU_Bot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By Mail Russia
Last Updated 20 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

1%
1% of top websites are blocking Mail.RU_Bot
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Country of Origin

Russia
Mail.RU_Bot normally visits from Russia

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Food and Drink
Finance
News
Health
Hobbies and Leisure
How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Mail.RU_Bot?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block Mail.RU_Bot?

You can block Mail.RU_Bot 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 Fetchers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new fetchers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt
User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Linux x86_64; Mail.RU_Bot/Favicons/2.0; +https://help.mail.ru/webmaster/indexing/robots) 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Mail.RU_Bot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/mail-ru-bot
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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