What is Bot Traffic and How can it Affect your Website Performance?
A recent report states that more than 42% of online traffic comes from non-human sources. Furthermore, all this traffic contains various programs ranging from legitimate crawlers and bots to corrupt automated software and programs. What is Bot Traffic? Bot traffic is traffic to a website from non-human sources. While the term usually carries a negative connotation with it, bot traffic is not a bad thing if the bots have a good purpose. There are many bots that have become an essential element of services such as search engines such as Google (Googlebot) and even digital assistants such as Alexa and Siri. Many companies have welcomed these bots on their sites. On the other hand, there are also malicious programs that generate bot traffic. These bots are commonly used for nefarious purposes such as data scraping, credential stuffing, DDoS attacks, and more. Even low-level bad bots can cause problems with website analysis and help hackers commit click fraud. Types of Bot ...