TECH Signal 511
99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots
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A website operator reports that nearly all incoming traffic is automated rather than human.
For engineers running web services, this shifts the baseline assumption: most requests may now be non-human. Defenses, analytics, and capacity planning must account for bot traffic as the norm rather than an edge case.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
Bot traffic can distort performance metrics and user engagement data.
Security and rate-limiting strategies may need redesign if bots dominate requests.
Infrastructure costs could rise if bot traffic consumes resources without generating value.
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