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Report: 51% of web site traffic is 'non-human' and mostly malicious

• postit 15y ago
  log analyzing the last month access approximately 1/3 of our web traffic is generated by crawler bots.
  • fuzzix 15y ago
    51% of zdnet.com is PR fluff churnalism. Only 49% is legitimate banner ads.
• NameNickHN 15y ago
  > Incapsula offers a service aimed at securing small > and medium sized businesses. No wonder they are telling people that there is a problem. Reminds me a bit of all those anti virus and firewall software companies.
  • corin_ 15y ago
    In other breaking news, advertising companies report that 100% of website traffic wants to buy my product!
• iamdann 15y ago
  What was the name of that company that would post bad Yelp reviews then contact the company offering to even things out by posting positive reviews in exchange for cash? Not sure what made me think of that...
• kanamekun 15y ago
  The server logs for my sites reflect a great number of bots as well. EC2 especially is home to a great number of bots that scan and probe sites for vulnerabilities. We completely blocked EC2 and bot traffic fell, but then users complained that they couldn't pin pictures from my site. It turned out that Pinterest uses EC2 to grab files when users pin pictures... so we had to turn EC2 access back on unfortunately.
• baltcode 15y ago
  Is it only considered malicious if it disobeys robots.txt?