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51% of Internet Traffic Is "Non-Human"
hypnosec writes "Cloud-based service Incapsula has revealed research indicating 51 per cent of website traffic is through automated software programs, with many programmed for malicious activity. The breakdown of an average site's traffic is as follows: 5% is due to hacking tools looking for an unpatched or new vulnerability within a site, 5% is scrapers, 2% is from automated comment spammers, 19% is the result of 'spies' collating competitive intelligence, 20% is derived from search engines (non-human traffic but benign), and only 49% is from people browsing the Internet."
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the article seems to be about websites, not the intetnet
... PORN?!?
It says right there in the summary: "only 49% from people browsing the Internet." Although you could argue that it's higher than that since spiders must crawl through porn too. Adding the 20% for the search spiders, we have that 69% of web traffic is porn related. A fitting number, I dare say.
4chan -- where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.
Hate to bring sources into a slashdot conversation, but Sandvine's 2011 report has 53.6% as "real-time entertainment". 29 percentage points are Netflix, 10 are YouTube.
So if those numbers are correct, roughly 15% of the Internet is porn.
Incapsula, a provider of cloud-based security for web sites, released a study today showing that 51% of web site traffic is automated software programs, and the majority is potentially damaging, — automated exploits from hackers, spies, scrapers, and spammers.
and it just so happens that Incapsula has the perfect solution to save you from all this... for a price.
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