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Given how many rounds of captchas I have to fight through, I'm not sure if these numbers are accurate.
This sorta mirrors the early-mid 2010's when people[1] were worried about how much of the internet was streaming traffic.
[1] Mostly ISP's annoyed at not being able to monetize it and folks trying to sell monetization solutions to them - https://www.sandvine.com/hubfs/Sandvine_Redesign_2019/Downlo...
According 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.
Do you mean 2013 or 2023?
Given how many rounds of captchas I have to fight through, I'm not sure if these numbers are accurate.
According 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.
> and in 2013, it was measured at 43%. Do you mean 2013 or 2023?
It'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…
Any 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.
It'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…