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Fastly’s Threat Insights Report says bots accounted for 49% of observed requests in January 2026, and 60% of requests reaching origin servers. The figures come from Fastly’s analysis of application and API requests, not a census of the entire web.
Why it mattersThe report highlights how automated traffic, including AI crawlers and fetchers, is becoming a practical infrastructure and access-control concern. Bot traffic is not automatically bad, but treating every bot alike can be a costly way to find out which ones matter. Fastly’s figures are a useful signal, though the supplied summary does not break down the data or explain how the company classified requests.
Discuss: Should websites make more effort to distinguish helpful AI crawlers from unwanted bots, even if that means more complicated access rules?
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