Would love to see it go further back and some meaningful metric of how much is web scrapers vs bots.
Bot vs human traffic
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#32CF posts metrics which reinforces their business... shocking
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#33Not shocking if CF is now trying really hard to keep me out of the internet
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#34It'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 s…
Thales Bad Bot Report categorizes the traffic between "good" and "bad" bots.
I would add that AI dramatically blurs the line between legitimate and malicious, and the intent generally speaking.
In regards to social bots, there's a 2024 study of over 1 million accounts on X and over 60% were found likely to be bots. Curiously, when Musk took over Twitter, the "Blue Checkmark" became something that can be bought for several bucks a month (with crypto, even), without any sort of verification.
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#35It'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 s…
>but I do worry about how many social bots are attempting to manipulate or mislead people.
You should browse reddit sometime. The easy ones to spot just autocreate accounts using the autoname at signup, which is of the formfactor [word1][word2]/d{4}
Regex nazis please spare me, I am doing my bestest
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#36CF posts metrics which reinforces their business... shocking
It's not Cloudflare's title, the submitted invented it.
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#37Any 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.
Is it not just a case of most of their clients being US based?
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#39Can bot traffic cause ad revenue to go up by any chance? Or false clicks that cost advertisers?
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#40This feels like a vibe-coded dashboard that someone made just because they could and with AI it is much cheaper/quicker to create. But they didn't actually put too much thought into how it would/could actually be used. This doesn't really provide much value over "well that's kind of interesting to know". There aren't really actionable points that one can take from looking at these charts.
Some of my opinion above is formed from my own experience making similar charts just because I wonder what something would look like graphed out :)