Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel confirmed this morning that the brand new Bingbot user-agent is now 100% reside at present. The brand new Bingbot will typically be used for crawling 100% of web sites, until 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 consumer brokers the place applicable.”
He linked to the up to date Bing crawler user agents web page that previously listed this because the consumer 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 Cellular Safari/537.36 (appropriate; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
The brand new consumer 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 Cellular 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 user agent name change, for BingBot. In December, Microsoft instructed us the brand new Bingbot consumer agent could be 100% live by January 2023.
Previous user-agent. Microsoft mentioned it might cease utilizing its historic consumer agent by the Fall of 2022. That user-agent seems to be 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 website. 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
Cellular – Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Construct/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Cellular Safari/537.36 (appropriate; bingbot/2.0; +https://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
“W.X.Y.Z” can be substituted with the most recent Microsoft Edge model Bing is utilizing, for eg. “100.0.4896.127″.
Why we care. You in all probability ought to have been ready for this transformation because it was introduced again in 2019. However in any occasion, this transformation can influence your website you probably have any consumer agent detection strategies for BingBot. Be certain to check your website to see if it helps the brand new consumer agent. Most websites in all probability don’t want to fret about this, however you probably have accomplished any superior bot detection, you could must take steps to replace these scripts.
Evidently should you didn’t make the mandatory adjustments, then Bing will use the outdated consumer agent as a fallback.
