Your traffic spike might be one AI newsletter bot: find it, verify crawlers, rate-limit the rest
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Sammy Straus posted a side project to Hacker News, got about a hundred upvotes, and watched the site get slower for days. The culprit was not GPTBot or ClaudeBot. Nearly half of all traffic came from one client, a service that turns website changes into an AI newsletter, hitting the site many times…
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- 2026-10-14 13:14 · DEV Community — AI
Your traffic spike might be one AI newsletter bot: find it, verify crawlers, rate-limit the rest
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