BOT TRAFFIC SIGNS
How to tell whether your website has a bot problem
Spot the warning signs of bot traffic across analytics, server activity, forms, accounts and customer behaviour.
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Bot traffic, explained for
business owners
Bot traffic is every website visit or request made by software instead of a person. Some automation is useful, such as verified search crawlers and approved monitoring tools. Other bots scrape data, test credentials, submit spam, reserve stock or overload important pages
Use this hub to understand what is happening, choose the guide that matches your situation and compare realistic ways to reduce harmful automation without blocking genuine customers or trusted services
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Choose your starting point
Start with the complete practical guide for the full route, or go directly to the question closest to what you are seeing
Diagnose the problem
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Bad bot vs real user: how to tell the difference
Learn which signals help separate automated traffic from real visitors - without relying on IPs or bot names alone
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How to protect your login page from bots
See how bots target login flows and how to stop credential attacks without adding friction for real users
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Scraping
How to stop web scraping
Learn how modern scrapers collect your prices, content and data - and what actually works to stop them
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How to protect your bonuses from bonus hunters
See how automated bonus abuse works, where it hurts your business and how to stop it without blocking genuine players.