Bots Account for More Than Half of All Web Traffic [Infographic]
A recent study indicates that more than 60 percent of all web traffic and more than half of those bots are malicious.
The spam machine is busy. And it’s not just attacking the social web, it’s taking over the entire Internet. According to study by Incapusla, creator of a web-based firewall application, human traffic accounts for less than 40 percent of all web traffic. That means more than half of the traffic on the web is made up of bots and according to the study, most of those bots are malicious.
The study, which observed more than 1 billion bot visits, identified four kinds of malicious bots: scrapers, spammers, hackers and impersonators.
While the study indicates a 21 percent growth in overall bot traffic, this is attributed to an increase in “good bots.”
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