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PATRONVIEW OWNER REVEALS YEAR-LONG BOT BATTLE

PatronView's operator disclosed staggering bot traffic across their 1.5M-page site, with AI crawlers generating 214 bot requests for every human page load. Claude accounted for 35,000 crawls per referred user, while Amazon's bot produced zero referral traffic.

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Owner of 1.5M-page site PatronView on a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35K Claude crawls per referred user, Amazon bot referred none (Nick Gray/PatronView)

Nick Gray / PatronView: Owner of 1.5M-page site PatronView on a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads…

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