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.

Expected Behavior

Search engine crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including popularity, the rate at which its content is updated, and the website's overall trustworthiness. Websites with fresh, high-quality content tend to be crawled more frequently, while less active or less reputable sites may be visited less often.

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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.