Gregory's Server@leah For me, an individual who runs a small private website, this is true. 50% - 60% of the traffic on my website comes from bots in an average month.
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  @obviousdwest @morihofi @tsia_ there are a lot of providers offering such services and I would prefer to fix the source of the peoblem and not the symptoms. @leah @obviousdwest @tsia_ I just discovered in my Matomo analytics that some traffic came from clients with a referer to https://www.xtraffic.plus. Some sort of traffic generator for SEO optimisation (How even should that work)  @morihofi @leah @obviousdwest (knowing some of those SEO people I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t work at all)   Maybe: couldn't you reduce the number of hits per minute and block the IP for a certain period of time? In WP, for example, you can do this with Wordfence @werawelt @morihofi @leah nah, typical visitors do bursts (page, CSS, fonts, images, js), so you’d hurt them too much .oO(maybe one could just block all “cloud” services, since they don’t list their customers’ actual ranges in WHOIS and change them too often anyway… if enough people did this, maybe we could get good IP subnet to customer mapping in WHOIS…) @morihofi @leah >50% of my traffic has been non-human for a long time, though that has included search engine spiders etc. I have a target of keeping them to < 50%. See top line in table. https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals.html#Stats The AI bots are a huge slice added to that. |
@morihofi @leah I would like to compare my request logs. How are you measuring this? Some sort of user agent list?