While reading this article, it would be good to know that you are not the only one on this page. Several "bots" read with you and according to her company his security Internet Incapsula its number is too big.
A study conducted by Incapsula reports that internet traffic coming from people only reaches 38,5% of all Internet traffic. In other words, 61,5%, or nearly two-thirds of all web visits, are made by Internet bots, a name that is given to a wide range of software applications that run and interact with the internet on behalf of their own people.
The news may sound like a Hollywood script, but there's probably no reason to panic. Just over half of non-human internet traffic can be attributed to "good bots", which, among other things, record the pages stores them and generally classifies the Internet, making it easier to navigate and search.
The company Incapsula reports that the remaining 30,5% of non-human web traffic comes from so-called "bad bots." These are responsible for all the bad things that happen, they send spam, steal data and spread malicious preletterthe.
Such a bot was presented by an article Wired earlier this month and as reported, can infect computers to generate fake pageviews (fake click) that can then be sold for advertising. The software is so sophisticated that it contains its own anti-virus engine that can remove and destroy competitive malware.
The data Incapsula's research is based on data collected over the past 90 days from 20.000 of its customers' websites. The team counted 1,45 billion bot visits from 249 different countries.
According to Dr. "Ian Brown of Oxford University Security Center, we should approach this data with some skepticism, as the backs of the Incapsula may or may not provide data that is representative of the wider web," she said. Huffington Post.
"Their data is unclear as they try to count malicious website visits where by default many of the visitors try to hide their IP," Brown told the BBC.
