Nearly two-thirds of tested websites fail every bot test Malicious bot activity increased 124% between July 2025 and June 2026, compared with 13.2% growth in human traffic. Traffic from AI agents and large language model crawlers rose 82.3% during the same period, according to DataDome’s State of Bot & Agent Security Report 2026. Bot traffic grows nine times faster than human traffic The company analyzed trillions of requests across more than 75,000 customer sites during the 12-month period. Bots and AI agents generated approximately 26.5% of all traffic in the dataset. Percentage growth in traffic type over a 12-month period (Source: DataDome) Human traffic’s share of requests declined, and bad bots accounted for most of the change. AI traffic also grew more than six times faster than…