Internet activity

[IBMJunkman]

GoDaddy says my website has 7% robot devices accessing it. Don’t know if that activity includes robots that pay attention to my robots.txt file.

This makes me wonder. How much of the overall internet activity is robots, spiders, etc? And now with, I assume, AI looking for stuff to learn.

 

[Jon-T]

One of the latest reports says 47%.

Report: 47 Percent of Internet Traffic is From Bots -- Security Today

Imperva Inc. recently released 2023 Imperva Bad Bot Report, a global analysis of automated bot traffic across the internet. In 2022, nearly half (47.4%) of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year. The proportion of human traffic (52.6%) decreased to its lowest...

securitytoday.com

Checking another forum I visit which displays users online there are presently 6 obvious bots logged in and 30 apparently organic critters browsing the site. Though some of the organics may be stealth bots

The bots are going to fetch every page while the organic meat bags will only go after those of interest.

 

[pete6032]

I read somewhere it was about 40%.