{"id":25679,"date":"2016-05-13T09:48:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/half-the-webs-traffic-comes-from-bots-and-thats-costing-you-more-than-you-think"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:59:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:59:51","slug":"half-the-webs-traffic-comes-from-bots-and-thats-costing-you-more-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/half-the-webs-traffic-comes-from-bots-and-thats-costing-you-more-than-you-think","title":{"rendered":"Half the Web\u2019s traffic comes from bots, and that\u2019s costing you more than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/half-the-webs-traffic-comes-from-bots-and-thats-costing-you-more-than-you-think.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the US we have an old saying \u201cfight fire with fire\u201d and in this case \u201cfight bots with bot\/s\u201d It should be noted, having a bot or any type of AI on your network is not necessarily going to prevent 100% of the hacking and Cyber threats today due to the weak connected infrastructure across the net, etc. However, to counter attack the pesky bots that we\u2019re seeing around online ads, click monitoring can be limited by AI.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Roughly half of all Web traffic comes from bots and crawlers, and that\u2019s costing companies a boatload of money.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one finding from a <a href=\"https:\/\/deviceatlas.com\/blog\/download-new-mobile-web-intelligence-report-q1-2016\">report<\/a> released Thursday by DeviceAtlas, which makes software to help companies detect the devices being used by visitors to their websites.<\/p>\n<p>Non-human sources accounted for 48 percent of traffic to the sites analyzed for DeviceAtlas\u2019s Q1 Mobile Web Intelligence Report, including legitimate search-engine crawlers as well as automated scrapers and bots generated by hackers, click fraudsters and spammers, the company said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3070022\/internet\/half-the-webs-traffic-comes-from-bots-and-thats-costing-you-more-than-you-think.html\">http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3070022\/internet\/half-the-web...think.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the US we have an old saying \u201cfight fire with fire\u201d and in this case \u201cfight bots with bot\/s\u201d It should be noted, having a bot or any type of AI on your network is not necessarily going to prevent 100% of the hacking and Cyber threats today due to the weak connected infrastructure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67500,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25679\/revisions\/67500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}