Re:47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022
by LinuxBender on Sunday May 14, 2023 @12:02PM
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I tend to agree unless everyone else is using 32GB favicons on the default websites like me. Streaming takes up a massive amount of bandwidth. That and P2P torrent sharing is only increasing with all the streaming services going back to the cable TV payment plan models.
There are a handful of bots that mirror/archive multimedia content that is anonymously accessible. There is no way those bots have the storage capacity to mirror even a single pass of all the anonymous content.
What I have seen increasing exponentially is port scanning but that takes up almost no bandwidth. Even the broken scanners that in effect look like an amateur DDoS only utilize about 15kb/s using dozens of CIDR blocks at the same time. That does not even remotely hold a candle to streaming.
The link below [1] is talking about Netflix as a percentage of internet downstream traffic and this is only Netflix. There are now hundreds of streaming providers and according to Sandvine streaming accounts for 65% of internet traffic. [2] This does not include torrents and other file sharing.
Here [3] are some fun stats. One of them backs up OP.
Every day, the internet generates more than 2,183,908 tons of CO2 emissions.
Internet traffic statistics show that 51.8% of all traffic is generated by bots, while humans account for only 48.2%.
There are a handful of bots that mirror/archive multimedia content that is anonymously accessible. There is no way those bots have the storage capacity to mirror even a single pass of all the anonymous content.
What I have seen increasing exponentially is port scanning but that takes up almost no bandwidth. Even the broken scanners that in effect look like an amateur DDoS only utilize about 15kb/s using dozens of CIDR blocks at the same time. That does not even remotely hold a candle to streaming.
The link below [1] is talking about Netflix as a percentage of internet downstream traffic and this is only Netflix. There are now hundreds of streaming providers and according to Sandvine streaming accounts for 65% of internet traffic. [2] This does not include torrents and other file sharing.
Here [3] are some fun stats. One of them backs up OP.
Every day, the internet generates more than 2,183,908 tons of CO2 emissions.
Internet traffic statistics show that 51.8% of all traffic is generated by bots, while humans account for only 48.2%.
[1] - https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-much-of-the-internets-band...
[2] - https://www.tubefilter.com/2023/01/20/sandvine-video-data-ba...
[3] - https://dataprot.net/statistics/internet-statistics/