Fetcher bots, including those from ChatGPT and Perplexity, are driving massive real-time request volumes, with some cases exceeding 39,000 requests per minute.
Fetcher bots, including those from ChatGPT and Perplexity, are driving massive real-time request volumes, with some cases exceeding 39,000 requests per minute. — This cybersecurity statistic was published by Fastly in August 2025. It covers topics including AI bots. The original data appears in Crawled, Scraped, Strained: Insights on AI Bot Behavior . For the full methodology and detailed findings, refer to the original report.
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Fetcher bots, including those from ChatGPT and Perplexity, are driving massive real-time request volumes, with some cases exceeding 39,000 requests per minute. This data was published by Fastly and covers AI bots.
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This statistic comes from Crawled, Scraped, Strained: Insights on AI Bot Behavior , published by Fastly on August 19, 2025. You can view the original report at https://learn.fastly.com/Security-Threat-Insights-Report.
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