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YandexImages

What is YandexImages?

About

YandexImages is a search engine crawler operated by Yandex. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often YandexImages visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Agent Type

Search Engine Crawler
Indexes web content for search engine results

Expected Behavior

Search engine crawlers systematically index websites to power search engines by discovering, analyzing, and cataloging web content. They visit sites on dynamic schedules determined by algorithmic priorities rather than fixed intervals. Crawl frequency depends on factors like site popularity, content freshness, update frequency, and domain authority. These crawlers typically respect robots.txt rules and throttle their requests to avoid overwhelming servers.

Detail

Operated By Yandex
Last Updated 6 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking YandexImages
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Country of Origin

Russia
YandexImages normally visits from Russia

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Search Engine Crawlers

Top Visited Website Categories

Real Estate
Books and Literature
Computers and Electronics
News
Arts and Entertainment
How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
Use the WordPress plugin, Node.js package, or API to get started in seconds.

Robots.txt

Should I Block YandexImages?

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 YandexImages?

You can block YandexImages 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 Search Engine Crawlers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new search engine crawlers automatically.
User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexImages/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: YandexImages # https://https://darkvisitors.com/agents/yandeximages
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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