ID: IRCNE2013122044
Date: 2013-12-15
According to "cnet", according to a recent study by Incapsula, more than 61 percent of all Web traffic is now generated by bots, a 21 percent increase over 2012.
Much of this increase is due to "good bots," certified agents such as search engines and Web performance tools. These friendly bots saw their proportion of traffic increase from 20 percent to 31 percent.
Incapsula believes that the growth of good bot traffic comes from increased activity of existing bots, as well as new online services, like search engine optimization.
But, along with the good comes the bad. That other 30 percent of bot traffic is from malicious bots, including scrapers, hacking tools, spammers, and impersonators. However, malicious bot traffic hasn't increased much over 2012 and spam bot activity has actually decreased from 2 percent to 0.5 percent.
Of the malicious bots, the "other impersonators" category has increased the most -- by 8 percent.
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