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Bad Bot Traffic Surges 124%, Growing Nine Times Faster Than Human Web Traffic
Key Takeaways
- Bad bot traffic grew 124% from July 2025 to June 2026, nine times faster than human traffic.
- AI traffic increased more than 82%, with scraping up 185% and scalping bots nearly tripling.
- AI bots target login pages at eight times the rate seen in the previous year's report.
- DataDome detected 52.7 billion crawler requests from AI agents, with Meta (46%) and OpenAI (35%) dominating.
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DT Editorial Team··via fastcompany.com