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The TrafficDATA Blog
Bot detection, AI crawlers, and what your traffic is actually made of.
How to Detect Bot Traffic on Your Website (Even the Bots That Lie)
Roughly half of web traffic is automated and your analytics can't see most of it. The five signal layers — user-agent, network, TLS fingerprint, behavior, verification — and how to check your own site today.
How to Block GPTBot Without Blocking Googlebot
GPTBot ignores being unwanted, Googlebot pays your bills. How to tell AI crawlers apart from search crawlers and block one without hurting the other.
What Is a Bot Tarpit? (And Why a 403 Doesn't Stop Scrapers)
A 403 tells a scraper to rotate IPs and retry. A tarpit makes the scrape itself expensive. How tarpits work and when to use one.
Who's Scraping Your Site? The AI Crawlers Worth Knowing in 2026
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Bytespider, PerplexityBot — what each AI crawler collects, whether it honors robots.txt, and how to decide which ones to allow.