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How many of those "bots" you are filtering are actually bots and how many are regular users buttflare has misidentified as bots?


Pretty simple to see this if you've run a website: compare your analytics pre-bot to post-bot to post-bot-blocker.

There is a clear moment where you land on AI bot radar. For my large forum, it was a month ago.

Overnight, "72 users are viewing General Discussion" turned into "1720 users".

40% requests being cached turned into 3% of requests are cached.




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