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.

Type

Search Engine Crawler
Indexes web content for search engine results

Detail

Operated By Zum Internet Corp
Last Updated 20 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

1%
1% of top websites are blocking ZumBot
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Country of Origin

South Korea
ZumBot normally visits from South Korea

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Search Engine Crawlers

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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?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

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.

User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; ZumBot/1.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36
# robots.txt
# This should block ZumBot

User-agent: ZumBot
Disallow: /