Bot Traffic at 50%?

Alexander Lau · Nov 11, 2019

Bots are used to run automated tasks over the internet, from data indexing to cyber attacks. Learn how to detect and manage bot traffic on your site.

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Key Findings from the 2019 Bad Bot Report:

In 2018, bad bots accounted for 1 in 5 website requests (20.4 percent of web traffic).Good bots decreased slightly to make up 17.5 percent of traffic.
73.6 percent of bad bots are classified as Advanced Persistent Bots (APBs), which are characterized by their ability to cycle through random IP addresses, enter through anonymous proxies, change their identities, and mimic human behavior.
Nearly 50 percent (49.9 percent) of bad bots report their user agent as Chrome. Mobile browsers, such as Safari Mobile, Android and Opera increased from 10.4 percent last year to 13.9 percent.
Amazon is the leading ISP for originating bad bot traffic. In 2018, 18 percent of bad bot traffic originated from Amazon compared with 10.62 percent the previous year.
Despite the fact that 53.4 percent of bot traffic originates from the United States, Russia and Ukraine combined make up nearly half (48.2 percent) of country-specific IP block requests.