Microsoft Preview
What is Microsoft Preview?
About
Microsoft Preview is a fetcher operated by Microsoft. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Microsoft Preview 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
Detail
Operated By | Microsoft |
Last Updated | 17 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Robots.txt
Should I Block Microsoft Preview?
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 Microsoft Preview?
You can block Microsoft Preview 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.
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: Microsoft Preview # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/microsoft-preview
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.