Why Your Website Is Getting Bot Traffic (And What to Do About It)
Bot traffic is costing you server resources, skewing your analytics, and potentially scraping your content. Here's exactly why bots target your site and how to stop them.
What bots actually want from your website
Bots visit websites for money. Price scrapers monetize competitor intelligence. Content scrapers republish your work. Credential stuffing bots sell working account credentials. Vulnerability scanners find exploitable weaknesses to sell access to. Understanding the motivation changes how you defend against them.
The 4 most common types of malicious bots
Scraper bots, credential stuffing bots, vulnerability scanners, and DDoS botnet participants. Each has a distinct traffic pattern — frequency, user-agent, request distribution — and each requires a slightly different defense.
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How to identify bot traffic in your analytics
Look for traffic with zero session duration, single-page visits at scale, unusual geographic concentrations, and non-browser user agents. Google Analytics 4 filters some bots automatically but misses sophisticated modern scrapers entirely.
5 ways to reduce bot traffic today
Rate limiting by IP, blocking known bad user agents, implementing CAPTCHA on high-value endpoints, using a WAF with bot detection rules, and deploying a dedicated bot management solution like UebGuard. Each layer removes a percentage of bots — combined, they eliminate the vast majority.
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