{"slug": "half-the-ai-bot-traffic-hammering-your-website-comes-from-meta", "title": "Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta", "summary": "AI agent traffic across DataDome's network grew 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion requests in Q3 2026, according to the company's AI Traffic Report Q3 2026. Meta's Muse crawler generated 29.1 million requests in its first 12 days of full availability, between September 22 and October 3, with 99.3% of sampled Muse requests coming from cloud and CDN infrastructure. Nearly half of the AI agent traffic DataDome recorded in 2026 through September came from Meta.", "body_md": "AI agent traffic across DataDome’s network grew 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion requests in Q3 2026, according to the company’s AI Traffic Report Q3 2026. Meta’s Muse generated 29.1 million requests between September 22 and October 3, its first 12 days of full availability. In a sample of Muse traffic, 99.3% of requests came from cloud and CDN infrastructure. Nearly half of the AI agent traffic recorded in 2026 through September occurred … [More](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/19/datadome-ai-agent-traffic-report/) \n\nThe post [Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/19/datadome-ai-agent-traffic-report/) appeared first on [Help Net Security](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/half-the-ai-bot-traffic-hammering-your-website-comes-from-meta", "canonical_source": "https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/19/datadome-ai-agent-traffic-report/", "published_at": "2026-10-19 04:30:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-19 04:49:20.207823+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-crawlers", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["DataDome", "Meta", "Muse", "Help Net Security"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/half-the-ai-bot-traffic-hammering-your-website-comes-from-meta", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/half-the-ai-bot-traffic-hammering-your-website-comes-from-meta.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/half-the-ai-bot-traffic-hammering-your-website-comes-from-meta.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/half-the-ai-bot-traffic-hammering-your-website-comes-from-meta.jsonld"}}