More Than 60 Percent of Internet Traffic is By Bots
2013.12.14
According to a new study, 61.5 percent of website traffic is generated by automated bots. That's a lot!
Researchers Incapsula found that bot produced traffic jumped by 21 percent last year alone. The researchers point out that the biggest jump in growth is for good bots, which are now 55 percent more active. How so?
The bots index content, and help perform analytics or preserve web pages for the future. And not all of them are malicious. There was a 75 percent drop in the frequency of spam links being automatically posted too.
Still, 61.5 percent of traffic from bots is really a lot. Hello bot! [BBC]
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