Bingbot conduct record
Microsoft · indexing. No rule broken in what was measured: no fetch of a path robots.txt disallows; busiest minute 3 requests, under this site’s 30 a minute.
| Conduct | no violations observed |
|---|---|
| Verified requests | 1,250 (from Microsoft’s published ranges) |
| Forged claims | 47 — 3.6% of requests using this name were impersonators |
| robots.txt | respected · 26 robots.txt fetches · 0 fetches of disallowed paths (/r/, /backup/, /admin-old/) |
| Rate | within site limit · busiest minute 3 requests (2026-10-07T11:34 UTC) against a limit of 30 · measured since 2026-10-07 |
| Revalidation | 0 conditional requests (0% of verified) |
| Seen here | 2026-08-14 → 2026-10-07 |
| Other sites, 14 days | 73 visitor checks: 69 verified, 4 spoofed |
verified requests to paths this site's robots.txt disallows for every agent, including a group that names this one; a lower bound before 7 Oct 2026 (per-path map capped at 40 paths) the busiest minute of verified requests observed here since the counter started; a lower bound
Signed record for this agent: /api/v1/conduct/Bingbot (verify with crawlcheck-verify.mjs). Generated 2026-10-07 17:43 UTC; rebuilt every ten minutes.