We've curated 5 cybersecurity statistics about AI Bots to help you understand how these automated tools are being leveraged for both enhancing security measures and posing new threats in 2025.
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AI bot traffic surged by 300% from 2024 to 2025, significantly impacting digital operations and analytics.
AI bots now compose nearly 1% of total bot traffic across Akamai's platform as of 2025.
The publishing industry experienced 63% of AI bot triggers within the broader digital media industry in 2025.
In healthcare, over 90% of AI bot triggers are attributed to scraping activities as of 2025.
The commerce industry recorded more than 25 billion bot requests over a two-month observation period in 2025.
North America accounts for nearly 90% of observed AI crawler traffic, receiving a heavy skew compared to other regions like Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Analysis of traffic from mid-April to mid-July 2025 revealed that AI crawlers made up almost 80% of all AI bot traffic observed.
Fetcher bots, including those from ChatGPT and Perplexity, are driving massive real-time request volumes, with some cases exceeding 39,000 requests per minute.
ChatGPT generates the most real-time traffic to websites, with 98% of fetcher bot requests attributable to OpenAI’s bots
Meta’s AI bots generated 52% of AI crawler traffic, which is more than double that of Google (23%) or OpenAI (20%).