When you discover that a large share of your website traffic comes from bots, blocking them can feel like the obvious next step. In some cases, the numbers do call for an immediate response.
PatronView recently documented 3.6 million requests hitting its site in a single day, with traffic coming from more than 360,000 IP addresses. The site owner eventually built a fairly aggressive set of Cloudflare rules to get the traffic under control.
We’ve seen extreme cases on our own infrastructure, too. In our AI and bot traffic report, one crawler generated 3.75 million requests to add-to-cart URLs in
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