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Somewhere in your traffic logs, a bot is doing more than looking

Akamai reported that verified AI crawlers, including ChatGPT's, have shifted from reading web pages to sending high-frequency POST requests, with ecommerce accounting for 44.8% of those AI bot POST transactions and travel climbing to 30% in a single month during a 30-day analysis of its global customers. The shift matters because a POST request tells a site to perform an action, such as logging a user in or adding an item to a cart, rather than simply requesting a page.

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Akamai has watched verified AI crawlers, ChatGPT among them, move from reading web pages to sending high-frequency POST requests. In a 30-day analysis of its global customers, ecommerce accounted for 44.8% of those AI bot POST transactions, and travel climbed to 30% in a single month. A GET request asks a website for a page. A POST request tells the site to do something, like log a user in, add an item to a cart, … More

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