The hidden cost of bot traffic on WordPress: what bandwidth reports don’t show

Kinsta analyzed more than 10 billion HTTP requests across its hosting infrastructure and found that bots hit add-to-cart URLs on WordPress sites 7.67 million times in a single 24-hour period. One crawler alone generated 550 million requests over 30 days before a rule stopped it.

This post was originally published on Kinsta by Joel Olawanle.

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