Bots Now Account For 61% of Net Traffic

codeusirae writes "A study by Incapsula suggests 61.5% of all website traffic is now generated by bots. The security firm said that was a 21% rise on last year's figure of 51%. From the article: 'Some of these automated software tools are malicious - stealing data or posting ads for scams in comment sections. But the firm said the biggest growth in traffic was for 'good' bots. These are tools used by search engines to crawl websites in order to index their content, by analytics companies to provide feedback about how a site is performing, and by others to carry out other specific tasks - such as helping the Internet Archive preserve content before it is deleted.'"

Re:Youtube?

[postbigbang]

The noise is now above the signal. We're screwed.

90% of the cells in the human body

[goombah99]

are bacteria. Viewed that way, basically humans exist to transport and feed bacteria. However that's 90% by cell count, not cell mass or total DNA. Looked at it that way the bacteria are assistants.

The bot traffic is light weight it outnumbers human traffic in site visits not byte counts. It exists to serve us.

idiotic math

[slashmydots]

Wow! So if I remember correctly from past Slashdot stories, 61% of internet traffic is boys, 60% is netflix, 50% is youtube, and 42% is bittorrent. That's TRULY astonishing when you think about it. I mean 213% is a lot!