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Bot vs human traffic
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#12“First time” The graph seems like it only goes back to April 27 and on that day it was 57% bot…
I think it’s meant as “for the first time in history..”. Not today in particular, but as a milestone.
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#13Only for HTML content. Total traffic would have been surprising.
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#14“First time” The graph seems like it only goes back to April 27 and on that day it was 57% bot…
Maybe "first time on a weekday"? Asit seems it's been above 60% every weekend since they started monitoring it.
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#15According to the Thales Bad Bot Report, in 2025 >53% of traffic came from bots. 2024 was 50 - 50, and in 2013, it was measured at 43%.
AI-driven* bot activity has increased more than tenfold however in the past 12 months so I'm confident this will grow to a very solid majority.
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#16Given how many rounds of captchas I have to fight through, I'm not sure if these numbers are accurate.
Captchas are part of the traffic. ;)
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#17OP: please add [2012] to the title
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#18It's a silly metric. There could be only one master bot that pings every known endpoint multiple times a second, and that would probably surpass all human activity, too. It doesn't really tell us much about intention or the ability to masquerade as humans.
Where I would start to worry is if there's evidence that bot access patterns are starting to become harder to distinguish from human access patterns, which would suggest that they are, in fact, mimicking or masquerading as humans. I don't care how many search bots are indexing web content, but I do worry about how many social bots are attempting to manipulate or mislead people.
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#19Any thoughts on why ~30% of HTTP request are in US? I know we had first mover advantage for awhile but I'd expect this to have been diluted by larger populations by now. It doesn't appear to be AI/bot driven either.
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#20Dead internet theory
what comes after death? more like dead -> dead -> dead internet