{"slug": "somewhere-in-your-traffic-logs-a-bot-is-doing-more-than-looking", "title": "Somewhere in your traffic logs, a bot is doing more than looking", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/22/ai-crawler-traffic-online-stores/) \n\nThe post [Somewhere in your traffic logs, a bot is doing more than looking](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/22/ai-crawler-traffic-online-stores/) appeared first on [Help Net Security](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/somewhere-in-your-traffic-logs-a-bot-is-doing-more-than-looking", "canonical_source": "https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/22/ai-crawler-traffic-online-stores/", "published_at": "2026-09-22 10:30:31+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-22 10:56:05.994308+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-crawlers", "ai-agents", "ai-search"], "entities": ["Akamai", "ChatGPT"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/somewhere-in-your-traffic-logs-a-bot-is-doing-more-than-looking", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/somewhere-in-your-traffic-logs-a-bot-is-doing-more-than-looking.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/somewhere-in-your-traffic-logs-a-bot-is-doing-more-than-looking.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/somewhere-in-your-traffic-logs-a-bot-is-doing-more-than-looking.jsonld"}}