Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis

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  • I manage a network of several hundred websites. About 2 years ago we started blocking bot/crawler user-agents. Some websites see thousands of these requests every day, skewing analytics and eating bandwidth.

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  • I manage a network of several hundred websites. About 2 years ago we started blocking bot/crawler user-agents. Some websites see thousands of these requests every day, skewing analytics and eating bandwidth.

    Tools like this help: https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blo...

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