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To quote the actual report [1]: > Of all internet traffic in 2022, 47.4% was automated traffic, also commonly referred to as bots. [...] Of that automated traf
by perlgeek 3y ago
To quote the actual report [1]:
> Of all internet traffic in 2022, 47.4% was automated traffic, also commonly referred to as bots. [...] Of that automated traffic, 30.2% were bad bots, a 2.5% increase from 27.7% in 2021
This is a bit misleading, according to the accompanying pie chart, 30.2% of all traffic were bad bots, not 30% of the 47.4%.
What is sorely lacking (from a quick skim of the PDF) is a detailed description of how the data was measured, what protocol it includes, what the error margins are etc.
[1] https://www.imperva.com/resources/reports/2023-Imperva-Bad-Bot-Report.pdf https://www.imperva.com/resources/reports/2023-Imperva-Bad-B...
- Retric 3y agoIt’s worse than that as over half of all internet traffic is video streaming. Bots simply aren’t a significant fraction of Netflix, D+, HBO Max etc because there’s no point. 47% of website requests might be more accurate.
- perlgeek 3y agoYes, sounds likely. Also, I'd be surprised if less than 50% of SMTP requests were malicious in some way (spam, scams, phishing, ...).
- joseda-hg 3y agoI've recently dealt with a website being brought down by an ABSURD amount of search requests made to improve SEO of other sites They were ostensibly Chinese bots, and they overloaded the hosting, not the bandwith, just requests