A new report from Incapsula Inc. revealed that bots have already occupied about 61.5 percent of the website traffic.
The Internet security CDN reported three quarters ago that more than half of Internet population was occupied by non-human entities or “bots,” 60 percent of which were generated from bad entities – two percent from comment spammers, five percent from hacking tools, five percent from scrapers, and 19 percent from other spies.
Because of these published findings, many have requested for an updated report. Researchers from Incapsula are very much willing to perform the task but had to wait for an interval and for the implementation of new Client Classification features.
The proper time has come to carry out the study, so researchers happily gathered significant information.
The new report revealed that from 51 percent, the website traffic brought by bots had increased to 61.5 percent, with impersonators occupying 20.5 percent, five percent for scrapers, 4.5 percent for hacking tools, and .5 percent for spammers.
Conversely, a large fraction of the bots which was 31 percent came from SEO services and search engine agents that are considered “other good bots.”
In comparison to the March report, the population of the spammers in the Web traffic decreased slightly and such is attributed to Google’s campaign against comment and link spamming.
However, impersonators, one that pretends to be a search engine minion or other agents in order to overcome past site barricades, are rapidly increasing.
Impersonators comprise of marketing intelligence gathering and distributed denial of service attacks.
Scrapers, like impersonators, are also bad elements that promote stealing of contents, e-mail address capturing spam messages and revere engineering of pricing.
In the future, if the number of non-human entities in the Web traffic continues to increase, the phrase “Internet of Things” may be more apt to describe who really rules the Worldwide Web.
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