Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

This chart shows the estimated share of global web traffic generated by humans and bots in 2018, 2021 and 2024 (in percent).

“Many people suspect that these bots are part of an AI company’s effort to collect training data from web pages. In 2025, AI bots accounted for a significant portion of overall web traffic, which ...

Alejandro Quintero, a data analyst in Bogotá, owns a website that publishes articles about paranormal activities. As the ...

AI-driven and “legitimate” bots now make up a growing share of web traffic, blurring the line between value and risk. Security teams must treat bot traffic as a governance, cost, and cyber supply ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing premium products and solutions for websites built on WordPress®¹, today released its 2025 Website Traffic Trends ...

As the Web turns 25, it's becoming a terrific place if you're a bot. It began as a tool for human communication, but now, over 60 percent of the traffic on the Web is automated applications called ...

Could turning an adversary’s power against them be an affective tactic for cybersecurity?

A new report out today from edge cloud platform provider Fastly Inc. has found that bot traffic continues to reshape the modern web, as artificial intelligence crawlers, fetchers and increasingly ...

LLMs and AI Agents are reshaping how the web operates and how consumers interact with it. As AI-powered shopping assistants increasingly drive purchase decisions, retail sites are now serving a dual ...

Report finds 76% of bot traffic is unverified, signaling intelligent traffic management as the new strategic imperative for web teams in 2026 WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing ...