ZumBot

What is ZumBot?

About

ZumBot is a web crawler operated by Zum that systematically indexes webpages and content to provide search results for Zum's Korean portal and search engine services. You can see how often ZumBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Agent Type

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

Insights

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Search Engine Crawlers

Robots.txt

Should I Block ZumBot?

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 ZumBot?

You can block ZumBot 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: ZumBot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/zumbot
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.