December 16, 2013

2/3rd of Web Traffic is Bots

The security outfit Incapsula has found out that about 62% of all website traffic today is generated by bots. There was a 21% rise on 2012 figure where bots accounted for a bit over 50% of the traffic.

Of course, some of those automated software instruments are malicious, but the rapid growth in traffic was for good bots used by search engines to crawl sites to index their content. Other types of bots are employed by analytics companies to provide feedback about how a portal performs, or by others to carry out specific tasks like helping the online archive preserve material before it’s removed.

Read more here

I think Lord Lindsey takes up the other 1/3 complaining about his health.
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2 comments:

  1. wandaDecember 16, 2013 at 6:54 PM

    [I think Lord Lindsey takes up the other 1/3 complaining about his health.]

    LOL

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  2. AnonymousDecember 16, 2013 at 11:06 PM

    There you go!!! I am much better, thank you, and have lost nearly 35 pounds from my high of nearly 230! This was an interesting article, and thank you for including it here.

    Lindsey

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