# Website Owner Finds 99% of Traffic Is Bots

A site operator analyzed their web traffic and found that 99% of requests came from automated bots rather than human visitors. The discovery highlights how bot activity can heavily skew analytics and why webmasters need effective bot filtering.

**Importance:** 3/5

## Sources

### Technology
- [Hacker News](https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/) — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:51:57 +0000