Bot traffic and AI referrals on public websites
Bots made 37.2% of the 6,403,522 page loads BYOViral saw on public websites between 14 Oct 2026 and 12 Nov 2026; the largest single source was Microsoft Corporation, with 40.3% of bot traffic.
Last 30 complete days (14 Oct 2026 – 12 Nov 2026), public websites that use BYOViral. Bot loads are filtered out of every other report; this page is where they are counted.
Where bot traffic comes from
| Network | Page loads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Corporation | 958,729 | 40.3% |
| Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Company Limited | 482,167 | 20.2% |
| DigitalOcean, LLC | 139,397 | 5.9% |
| HUAWEI INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD. | 122,348 | 5.1% |
| Datacamp Limited | 120,077 | 5.0% |
| (other) | 112,422 | 4.7% |
| HostRoyale Technologies Pvt Ltd | 87,063 | 3.7% |
| Amazon.com, Inc. | 40,240 | 1.7% |
| Servers.com, Inc. | 37,818 | 1.6% |
| Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd. | 26,362 | 1.1% |
| Hetzner Online GmbH | 24,690 | 1.0% |
| Byteplus Pte. Ltd. | 21,238 | 0.9% |
| Google LLC | 14,795 | 0.6% |
| Huawei Cloud Service data center | 13,658 | 0.6% |
| The Constant Company, LLC | 12,023 | 0.5% |
Why they were flagged
| Reason | Page loads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Datacenter | 2,145,470 | 90.1% |
| Stale browser fleet | 236,279 | 9.9% |
Bot traffic by country
| Country | Page loads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,104,199 | 46.4% |
| Singapore | 397,839 | 16.7% |
| Ireland | 111,659 | 4.7% |
| Hong Kong | 79,928 | 3.4% |
| China | 74,585 | 3.1% |
| Mexico | 67,523 | 2.8% |
| Australia | 66,396 | 2.8% |
| Canada | 58,510 | 2.5% |
| Brazil | 48,255 | 2.0% |
| Germany | 37,596 | 1.6% |
Visits sent by AI assistants
| Assistant | Visits |
|---|---|
| Meta AI | 105 |
| ChatGPT | 69 |
| Claude | 66 |
| Copilot | 55 |
| Perplexity | 16 |
| Gemini | 6 |
| Grok | 5 |
| DeepSeek | 4 |
| Mistral | 1 |
These are people who clicked a link inside an AI assistant's answer, counted from the referrer. Assistants that open links without a referrer show up as direct traffic instead, so the real number is higher. For shares over longer windows see AI platform referrals.
How bots are detected
A page load is counted as a bot when the browser says it is one, when it comes from a data-centre network rather than a home or mobile connection, or when the browser it claims to be does not add up — a version that has not been released yet, or a large group of identical, years-old Windows browsers. Data-centre traffic includes real automation such as scrapers, monitoring and AI crawlers that run scripts, plus some people browsing through cloud VPNs. See the methodology for the rest of the rules.
Cite this data
Source: BYOViral Global Stats, bot traffic and AI referrals, public-network page loads 14 Oct 2026 – 12 Nov 2026, https://www.byoviral.com/global-stats/bots-and-ai. Licensed CC BY 4.0.