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Bots dominate small Web site traffic, research shows
A surprising 51 percent of traffic to an average Web site -- one with 50,000 to 100,000 monthly visitors -- is potentially bot generated, according to new research from Web security and performance company Incapsula.
On top of that, 31 percent of overall traffic to these such sites is malicious.
The news is worse for very small sites -- or those with fewer than 2,500 monthly visitors. Incapsula examined more than a thousand small sites and found that 83 percent of each site's traffic comes from non-human (bad bots and good bots) with bad bots accounting … Read more
