Bots now account for half of global internet traffic and 'bad bots' nearly one third

Chalk this up as further evidence of the impending demise of civilisation, along with the climate, large language models and the increasingly ubiquitous implementation of the Oxford comma. Now it's being reported that very nearly half of all internet traffic is accounted for by bots.

That's according to the 2024 Bad Bot Report by cybersecurity specialist Imperva, via SecurityBrief. The headline figure has bots representing 49.6% of all internet traffic. Arguably even worse is the 32% of...