According to the latest report from Akamai Technologies, bots account for 42% of overall website traffic, with 65% of these bots being malicious.
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The report highlights that with the increasing demand for stealing website data, the e-commerce industry has been significantly impacted by high-risk bot traffic. Although some bots are beneficial to businesses, web scraping bots are used for malicious activities such as competitive intelligence and espionage, stockpiling inventory, creating impersonation websites, which negatively affects corporate profits and customer experience.
The report also found that companies are facing technical impacts from scraping for malicious or beneficial purposes, such as website performance degradation, website metric pollution, credential stuffing attacks from phishing websites, increased computational costs, and more.
The report further provides mitigation strategies against web scraping bots and presents a case study demonstrating that once defenses against these bots are established, websites operate faster and more efficiently.
Key Points:
⭐ The report shows that approximately 42% of website traffic comes from bots, with 65% being malicious bots.
⭐ Companies face technical impacts from scraping for malicious or beneficial purposes, such as website performance degradation, website metric pollution, credential stuffing attacks, increased computational costs, and more.
⭐ The report offers mitigation strategies against web scraping bots and presents a case study illustrating that once defenses against these bots are established, websites operate faster and more efficiently.