Bot traffic is becoming a bigger part of the web, and a bigger consideration for anyone managing a website. That was reinforced by Kinsta’s analysis of more than 10 billion requests in a year when AI-driven bot traffic was reported to have increased some 300%.
With automated traffic growing, bot management should be proactive whenever possible, before unusual activity hurts site performance or consumes excessive resources. But that doesn’t mean blocking every bot. Some automated traffic, such as search crawlers and monitoring tools, is beneficial, while other bots may consume resources without being actively malicious.
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