13 stories tagged bot-traffic, newest first.
235 points by coloneltcb | 76 comments
Cloudflare blog post analyzing how bot traffic from Yandex networks changed during a Yandex outage, finding malicious bots migrated rather than stopping.
313 points by sammy0910 | 170 comments
Blog post by the developer of sprinklz.io describing how his site slowed after an HN post due to heavy AI bot and scraper traffic, found via NGINX logs.
153 points by rooftopzen | 45 comments
Cloudflare Radar bot traffic page for Yandex's network (AS13238) over 7 days; the capture shows only a Cloudflare security verification screen.
33 points by PLenz | 4 comments
A Bluesky post claiming bot traffic fell to near zero after a strike on a data center in Vladimir, Russia.
561 points by walrus01 | 226 comments
Cloudflare Radar page showing bot traffic statistics for Yandex's autonomous system (AS13238) over the past seven days; only a verification challenge loaded.
401 points by petercooper | 367 comments
A site owner's account of a year spent fighting scraper bots on a 1.5 million-page website; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
328 points by chmaynard | 343 comments
LWN article by Jonathan Corbet updating on AI scraper bot traffic overwhelming websites and the role of residential proxy networks.
372 points by LorenDB | 197 comments
MetaBrainz Foundation blog post explaining how AI scrapers are forcing it to restrict or change services it offers to the community.
332 points by simul007 | 258 comments
A DataCops blog post arguing that up to 73% of e-commerce site visitors may be bots mimicking human engagement, skewing analytics and conversion rates.
365 points by tosh | 126 comments
Cloudflare Radar's AI Insights dashboard showing traffic trends from AI bots and crawlers, filterable by industry and crawl purpose.
329 points by LinuxBender | 232 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that open source developers face overwhelming AI crawler traffic, leading some to block entire countries to keep FOSS sites online.
803 points by todsacerdoti | 487 comments
LibreNews article by Niccolò Venerandi on how LLM scrapers from AI companies are overloading and taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure.
566 points by ta988 | 335 comments
A diaspora* post by Dennis Schubert reporting that LLM training crawlers like GPTBot, Amazonbot and ClaudeBot account for about 70% of the project's web infrastructure traffic.