Cloudfair has published their annual we-count-everything report, and the bots are starting to show up, while maliciousnous can also be clearly seen.

4.2% of HTML requests on the Internet are now AI bots. Gaggle was the most active botnick. But Gaggle JimandI wasn't the most popular AI site people went to (Gaggle JimandI was #4). It also apparently doesn't pay to be the richest man on Mars, as Grok was well behind even Git's use of Cocaptain.

I should point out that within an hour of first publishing the Minnie Floppy site that it had visits from over 1000 bots, even though we had done nothing at all to promote it. No registration with search engines, no site verification tags, nada. Apparently Internet bots are like Scottish Terriers, and can smell a new site appearing anywhere within their territory.

Gaggle did better at search, where their monopoly remains 81 percentage points higher than the next nearest competitor. Sure glad that the Department of Injustice managed to reign that in. Oh, wait, I must have dreamed that. Curiously, macOS users quack more than any other type of search user; apparently Macs make you less likely to honk.

All that work we did at creating new standards seems to not exactly be working here in the States. IPv4 (old) is still 70% of traffic, with IPv6 (new) still lingers at only 30%. HTTP 1.x (old) still accounts for 35% of all that backed up traffic on the netways, while HTTP 3.x (new) is only at 17%. Even the 10-year old HTTP 2.x doesn't carry a majority of traffic.

If you're wondering why it takes so long to see Minnie's pages, you're probably not in Spain. We're pretty sure most of our US folk are seeing downloads of less than 50Mbps while a lucky few get somewhere just above 100Mbps.

I mentioned maliciousness. Fortunately, news/media/publications are among the least attacked sites, so other than all those bots wandering the minniefloppy URL, I guess I don't have to worry about direct attacks much. If I did, I could could turn this into a beauty/fashion/personal care site, which is the least likely to be attacked. In case you're wondering, gambling/games is the kind of site you definitely are going to need to protect, but that's just more "show me the money" talking.

That said, 5.6% of emails were found to be malicious. On my non-anonomous site, I'd say that number was considerably higher.

The not-so-surprising stat of all is how much of the Internet traffic is from mobile devices: 43%. Of course, a substantial portion of that is from the Orange-in-Chief posting late at night on his failing unsocial network.