Bad Bot Statistics For My Website

Context: “Dead Internet Theroy Confirmed: 51% of Traffic now Non-Human”

My droplet runs on Apache2. A bit of text manipulation tells me that since the 9th of April:

• it served about 50k client requests - in total.
  • cat access.log* | wc -l outputs 52818
• 48k of which contained the word “bot” in their apache access log line.
  • cat access.log* | grep -i "bot" | wc -l outputs 48396
• 2k of which did not.
  • cat access.log* | grep -v -i "bot" | wc -l outputs 2018

With this I can confidently say that barely 3% of my total traffic is not an A.I. bot. I certainly cannot classify private, custom, hacking bots. Which is why I round the number and say ~3% while the math shows 3.82%. A bit of searching through the access.log files shows numerous requests of dictionary attacks and the like. Which is why I am rounding the percentage down in the first place and call THAT my end estimate of normal, healthy traffic.

Let me say it again. In a span of 15 days, my server received 50k client requests and a good 3% of which was normal, healthy traffic.

Ah, long time no see! Mobsecurity!