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title: "97% of Traffic Disappeared After Bot Detection"
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publication: "TinyFish"
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language: "en-US"
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published: 2025-12-31
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# 97% of Traffic Disappeared After Bot Detection

*December 31, 2025*

[Read on the website](<https://current.tinyfish.ai/issue/10/practitioners-corner/article/7270/97-of-traffic-disappeared-after-bot-detection>)

OffenderWatch processed 80 million API requests daily. After implementing rate limiting and bot protection, that number dropped to 2.5 million. A 97% reduction.

The CEO got back hours of his day. The development team stopped spending two to three hours managing rules manually. Infrastructure costs, human attention, operational complexity: all calibrated to a false baseline. They weren't operating at scale. They were operating at the scale of their bot problem.

What they'd been scraping for free? They turned it into a paid product. Those 2.5 million requests that remained were the ones that actually mattered.

## More

- [Practitioner's Corner — Issue 10](<https://current.tinyfish.ai/issue/10/practitioners-corner/markdown>)
- [Issue 10](<https://current.tinyfish.ai/issue/10/markdown>)
- [Publication guide](<https://current.tinyfish.ai/llms.txt>)