Top Robot Traffic on Publisher Websites (2024)

Top Robot Traffic on Publisher Websites (2024)

The predominant force behind internet traffic comprises bots rather than human users. These automated agents, ranging from search engine crawlers to content aggregators, play a key role in data retrieval, analysis, and dissemination across the internet.

Their widespread presence highlights the detailed interplay between technology and information dissemination in the modern era, shaping the online experience for users worldwide.

Two primary categories of bots characterize web traffic: declared and undeclared. Declared bots openly identify with reputable brands through their user agent strings, while undeclared ones operate anonymously. Notably, a big proportion of declared bots originates from established Internet Data Centers (IDCs), underscoring their significant role in shaping online traffic dynamics.

The following list is detected by the Transfon Gateway intelligent bot traffic detection system.

Top Bot List 2024

User Agent	Sample Requests
Googlebot	198,066
bingbot	107,707
Facebook	84,643
comscore	55,397
Okhttp	34,275
curl	23,147
IAS	21,056
Applebot	19,129
Mediapartners-Google	16,911
YandexBot	16,150
Amazonbot	12,130
weborama-fetcher	11,783
Bytespider	11,118
GrapeshotCrawler	10,726
CriteoBot	10,513
MetadataScraper	10,485
LinkedInBot	10,179
UniversalFeedParser	9,878
Yahoo	8,816
peer39_crawler	8,344
AppleNewsBot	6,667
FeedFetcher-Google	5,195
Outbrain	4,897
TTD	4,840
GPTBot	4,548
Twitterbot	4,054
Gumgum	3,655
Clickagy	3,246
CCBot	3,012
Sogou	2,887
AmazonAdBot	2,307
SirdataBot	2,189
FeedlyBot	2,173
Mediatoolkitbot	2,128
yahoo	2,124
BLEXBot	1,562
SentiBot	1,451
FeedBurner	1,358
um-IC	1,196
MaxPointCrawler/Nutch-1.19	466
Inoreader	367
node-fetch	105
Commons-HttpClient	56