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

> Source: <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/22/ai-crawler-traffic-online-stores/>
> Published: 2026-09-22 10:30:31+00:00

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/) 

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