AI bots may outnumber humans online by 2027, says Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, as generative AI agents dramatically ...

Last year, 40.8% of all web traffic requests were not human, underscoring the growing scale of bot traffic across the Internet, Imperva Research Labs, a research group within security software and ...

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

Automated traffic to Web sites has steadily increased, driven by legitimate search-engine indexing, questionable crawlers, and malicious attackers. Companies need to know which is which. To that end, ...

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, ...

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 ...

In an update to Google Analytics, bot traffic will be automatically filtered out of reports for Web + App properties. “In App + Web properties, traffic from bots and spiders is automatically excluded.

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 ...

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 ...

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Microsoft has announced that the Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection feature has reached general availability on Azure Application Gateway starting this week. Azure Web Application Firewall ...