Yandex Bot Traffic Fell 99 Percent Overnight. Here's How to Measure and Block the AI Crawlers Hitting Your Own Server
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Last weekend two of Yandex's five data centres were hit by Ukrainian drone strikes, according to Reuters and the BBC. Within a day, Cloudflare's traffic data showed bot traffic from the Yandex network down to 0.4 percent of its recent maximum. A crawler fleet that had been hammering sites for weeks…
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- 2026-10-12 12:04 · DEV Community — AI
Yandex Bot Traffic Fell 99 Percent Overnight. Here's How to Measure and Block the AI Crawlers Hitting Your Own Server