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 ...

Roughly half of all Web traffic comes from bots and crawlers, and that’s costing companies a boatload of money. That’s one finding from a report released Thursday by DeviceAtlas, which makes software ...

The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic A growing number of websites are taking steps to ban AI bot ...

Last year, 40.8% of all web traffic requests were not human, underscoring the growing scale of bot traffic across the Internet, Imperva Research Labs, a research group within security software and ...

Every November and December, online retailers gear up for their biggest revenue surge of the year. But while the traffic and ...

Bots — they’re tiny, often undetectable, and they’re causing chaos across all corners of the internet. Now, a new report from an online security firm with operations in San Francisco finds bots are ...

Is your ecommerce site getting a lot of traffic? Well, that might not be a good thing, as a new report found that 40% of visitors on ecommerce websites were bots in the last 12 months. The online ...

In an update to Google Analytics, bot traffic will be automatically filtered out of reports for Web + App properties. “In App + Web properties, traffic from bots and spiders is automatically excluded.

In an online realm where the number of site visitors often dictates the perceived success and reach of a website, the allure of boosting one's visitor count is strong. Enter the controversial traffic ...

The financial services industry sees nearly half of all website traffic coming from malicious bots. About a fifth of all web traffic (20.4 percent) comes from bad bots, which continue to attack daily ...

Bad bots are eating the internet, accounting for 21.8 percent of all website traffic in 2017, according to a report released today by Distil Networks Inc. The “Bad Bot Report 2018: The Year Bad Bots ...

Not all bots are bad, but there are definitely more of the harmful ones that we thought. According to The Next Web, software company Distil Networks published its annual Bad Bot Report this week. Its ...