Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel confirmed this morning that the brand new Bingbot user-agent is now 100% dwell at present. The brand new Bingbot will usually be used for crawling 100% of web sites, except one thing goes fallacious and Bing has to fallback to the earlier Bingbot user-agent.
Bing’s affirmation. Fabrice Canel posted on Twitter, “sure, 100% at present. We fallback to earlier person brokers the place acceptable.”
He linked to the up to date Bing crawler person brokers web page that beforehand listed this because the person agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (appropriate; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; appropriate; bingbot/2.0; +http://www. bing.com/bingbot.htm) Chrome/ WXYZ Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Construct/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/ WXYZ Cell Safari/537.36 (appropriate; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
The brand new person agent is documented as:
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; appropriate; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Chrome/
Mozilla/5.0 (appropriate; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Construct/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Cell Safari/537.36 (appropriate; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Some historical past. In 2019, Microsoft Bing introduced new Bingbot user-agent names that match higher with its evergreen Bingbot crawling and rendering service. Then in April 2022, Microsoft introduced a reputation change, a person agent title change, for BingBot. In December, Microsoft advised us the brand new Bingbot person agent could be 100% dwell by January 2023.
Outdated user-agent. Microsoft mentioned it could cease utilizing its historic person agent by the Fall of 2022. That user-agent appears like this:
Mozilla/5.0 (appropriate; bingbot/2.0; +https://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
New user-agent. Bing will use a user-agent that identifies the precise model of Microsoft Edge is crawling your web site. Right here is the format for each desktop and cell:
Desktop – Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; appropriate; bingbot/2.0; +https://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
Cell – Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Construct/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Cell Safari/537.36 (appropriate; bingbot/2.0; +https://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
“W.X.Y.Z” will likely be substituted with the most recent Microsoft Edge model Bing is utilizing, for eg. “100.0.4896.127″.
Why we care. You most likely ought to have been ready for this variation because it was introduced again in 2019. However in any occasion, this variation can affect your web site if in case you have any person agent detection strategies for BingBot. Be sure to check your web site to see if it helps the brand new person agent. Most websites most likely don’t want to fret about this, however if in case you have executed any superior bot detection, it’s possible you’ll must take steps to replace these scripts.
Evidently in case you didn’t make the mandatory modifications, then Bing will use the previous person agent as a fallback.
