What is 360Spider?
360Spider is a search engine crawler operated by Qihoo 360. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when 360Spider visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Qihoo 360 |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | September 15, 2026 |
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Category
Expected Behavior
360Spider follows an algorithmic schedule shaped by your site's popularity, update cadence, and domain authority. It generally spreads requests across recurring crawl passes, throttles itself to limit server load, and respects crawl rules more reliably than most other bots.
360Spider's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/140.0.0.0; 360Spider |
How To Block 360Spider With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block 360Spider from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all search engine crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: 360Spider # https://knownagents.com/agents/360spider
Disallow: /Insights for 360Spider
As of September 15, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
6% of top websites block 360Spider in their robots.txts.
Overall Search Engine Crawler Traffic
15.2% of all web traffic came from search engine crawlers.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by 360Spider.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block 360Spider?
No, unless you want to remove your pages from that search engine. 360Spider supplies its index, so blocking it can eliminate your visibility and organic traffic there. Nearly every website should allow this category. For context, 6% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for 360Spider.
Does 360Spider Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. 360Spider is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether 360Spider respects it.
Does 360Spider Access Private Content?
No special access. 360Spider can reach only content available to anonymous visitors and does not sign in. Make sure sensitive content is not public by mistake.
How Can I Tell if 360Spider Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks 360Spider visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "360Spider". Look for recurring passes that revisit changed pages and discover new ones. Because 360Spider does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
Why Is 360Spider Visiting My Website?
360Spider is adding new or changed pages to its search index. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or direct submission.