What percentage of website traffic is actually bots?

Around 79% in raw logs from this analysis – WordPress probes, XMLRPC, PHP scans dominate.

How do I check my own site for bot traffic?

Pull raw access logs (no analytics). Group by paths like /wp-login.php, /xmlrpc.php. Tally non-human patterns.

Yes – track across sites, classify behaviors, block repeats. Cuts noise dramatically.

Pulled raw logs from two days straight. Shocker: 79% isn't humans at all. Bots, scanners, brute-forcers – they're the real traffic kings.

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