Block Scrapers & Protect Performance
Filter out malicious AI bots at the edge. Stabilize your ROI metrics, reduce infrastructure costs, and secure your proprietary content from unauthorized LLM scraping.
Know Your Good Bots From Bad
The rise of AI has unleashed a flood of new web crawlers. While some bots boost discoverability, others are designed to scrape your proprietary content, steal pricing data, or power competitive AI models. Take control of your defense by actively categorizing and managing transparent bots versus malicious actors.
Protect Your Analytics and ROI
Unregulated crawling skews your most critical metrics—artificially inflating pageviews, distorting bounce rates, and disrupting conversion tracking. By filtering out unwanted AI bots at the edge, you ensure your analytics are clean, allowing you to make high-impact marketing decisions based on true human intent.
Protect Server Resources & Reduce Costs
Every AI bot request can trigger heavy database queries, especially when hitting dynamic search URLs. Unchecked, these crawls spike CPU load, slow down the site for real users, and drive up cloud hosting bills. Eliminate unnecessary infrastructure growth by blocking non-human traffic before it ever reaches your servers.
51%
of all web activity is now automated traffic
37%
of total internet traffic consists of malicious "bad bots" looking to scrape data or exploit vulnerabilities
7 Billion
web application attacks mitigated by Acquia every single quarter
Acquia Edge Bot Manager
Bot Intelligence
Access a constantly updated directory of over 1,400 known bots across 17 categories to identify traffic instantly.
Machine Learning Detection
Automatically discover unknown bots using behavioral analysis, browser fingerprinting, and advanced heuristics.
Real-Time Edge Mitigation
Proactively block, challenge, or rate-limit suspicious bots at the edge before they consume your origin server bandwidth.
Bot-Centric Reporting
Gain deep visibility with real-time and historical dashboards to track bot trends and continuously tune your security policies.
Master Site Traffic & Content Strategy
AI bot traffic is now a constant presence for enterprise sites. Watch our expert webinar to learn how to identify good vs. bad bot traffic, protect your site performance with proactive controls, and ensure absolute clarity in your data.
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They act as an "invisible audience" that scrapes your proprietary content to train competing AI models, artificially inflates your cloud hosting costs, and skews your marketing analytics—making it challenging to track accurate conversion rates.
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No. While legitimate search engine bots (like Googlebot) respect robots.txt directives, malicious scrapers and many unregulated AI crawlers ignore them entirely. They evade detection by mimicking human behavior and cycling IP addresses, which is why a sophisticated Web Application Firewall (WAF) is required.
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| Why are my search impressions rising but my clicks are falling? |
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This is the "Impressions-Clicks Paradox." Search interfaces are heavily utilizing AI-generated summaries (zero-click searches). Bot management helps you filter out the noise so you can accurately optimize your site for the high-intent human users who do click through.
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Stop paying for bot traffic. Start protecting your analytics.
