AI Bot Traffic to Websites Is Rising Rapidly. It Could Change the Nature of the Web

Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...
Business Wire

WP Engine’s 2025 Website Traffic Trends Report Shows Bot-Heavy Traffic and Growing Performance Gaps

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing premium products and solutions for websites built on WordPress®¹, today released its 2025 Website Traffic Trends ...

A Surge of Strange Bot Traffic From China Has Website Owners Alarmed. Here’s What It Means for Your Data

Alejandro Quintero, a data analyst in Bogotá, owns a website that publishes articles about paranormal activities. As the ...
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Are bad bots taking over the web?

This chart shows the estimated share of global web traffic generated by humans and bots in 2018, 2021 and 2024 (in percent).
LAist

In A Battle For Web Traffic, Bad Bots Are Going After Grandma

As the Web turns 25, it's becoming a terrific place if you're a bot. It began as a tool for human communication, but now, over 60 percent of the traffic on the Web is automated applications called ...
MediaPost

Microsoft Exposes AI Bot Site Traffic

Microsoft's Clarity has released a way to identify patterns that show how artificial intelligence (AI) crawlers, search bots, and automated agents interact with web content long before AI agents serve ...
Seeking Alpha

Bots Compose 42% of Overall Web Traffic; Nearly Two-Thirds Are Malicious, Reports Akamai

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today released a new State of the Internet ...
SiliconANGLE

Fastly report finds bot traffic now makes up nearly a third of all web requests

A new report out today from edge cloud platform provider Fastly Inc. has found that bot traffic continues to reshape the modern web, as artificial intelligence crawlers, fetchers and increasingly ...
Dark Reading

Stop AI Bot Traffic: Protecting Your Organization's Website

When Internet users are online shopping, paying their bills, or Googling answers to their questions, what they may not realize is there are others perusing the same website they are on. The difference ...
Retail TouchPoints

Bots are Taking Over the Web. Why that May not be a Bad Thing for Retail Marketers

LLMs and AI Agents are reshaping how the web operates and how consumers interact with it. As AI-powered shopping assistants increasingly drive purchase decisions, retail sites are now serving a dual ...
Morningstar

WP Engine’s 2025 Website Traffic Trends Report Shows Bot-Heavy Traffic and Growing Performance Gaps

Report finds 76% of bot traffic is unverified, signaling intelligent traffic management as the new strategic imperative for web teams in 2026 WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing ...