AI and LLM Bot Management Has Become a Business-Critical Issue: Do It Right
akamai, Tuesday, July 15th, 2025
AI bots and LLM scrapers all want your content. Akamai stops the scrapers that hinder your business and manages the bots that help it.
- AI bot traffic has grown 300% in the past year.
- The number of AI/LLM bots is increasing substantially, but their use patterns help determine intent.
- With Akamai, you can know who's accessing your content, stop scrapers, and take back control of your traffic by deciding who can access which content, under what conditions.
AI is driving increased traffic on the internet
Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven bot traffic went from next to nothing late last year to 0.27% of traffic across the Akamai platform and 0.9% of known bots, tracked in our library of self-identified, Akamai-categorized bots (Figure 1). This traffic is now already in the billions of requests per day.