Bingbot is Microsoft’s web crawler responsible for discovering, indexing, and ranking web pages for the Bing search engine. It navigates the internet to update Bing’s index, ensuring search results are relevant and timely. Key benefits include improved visibility for websites, which can enhance organic traffic and SEO performance. Additionally, webmasters can manage Bingbot’s access through tools like robots.txt files and Bing Webmaster Tools to optimize crawling efficiency.
bingbot
About
Operator
Microsoft Corporation
Website
Bot User Agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Chrome/116.0.1938.76 Safari/537.36
What is bingbot?
Why is bingbot crawling my site?
Bingbot crawls your website frequently to index new or updated content, ensuring it remains relevant in search results. Factors include site importance, content freshness, and links.
Threat research insights on bingbot
All data in this section are produced by DataDome's Galileo Threat Research team from our proprietary detection network and reviewed by human analysts.
Verified Bot
A verified bot has high identification strength
Verified
Robots.txt Compliance
Whether this bot respects robots.txt directives
Not respected
Identification Strength
How confidently DataDome can identify this bot
High
Traffic origins
Top 15 countries by bot traffic
US
99.1%
FR
0.47%
GB
0.24%
DE
0.1%
NL
0.07%
JP
0.02%
CA
0.01%
Most used autonomous system (AS)
Top 5 by traffic share
Microsoft Corporation
100.0%
Traffic Occupancy
6.78%
On average, occupy 6.78% of the traffic from bots in the directory
Authorization Rate
100%
Businesses decide to authorize this bot 100% of the time
How to block bingbot?
Consider Additional Directives:
If you want to limit Bingbot’s crawl rate instead of blocking it entirely, you can use the Crawl-delaydirective. For example, to slow down its crawling, you could write:
text User-agent: bingbot Crawl-delay: 10
This instructs Bingbot to wait 10 seconds between requests
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