#bot-protection

#bot-protection

It seems like everyone has a spam story or two to tell. And we're not talking about in a lifetime. No, spam is an everyday nuisance and something we live with. The problem impacts every corner of the web. Sure, it litters social networks and enterprise applications. But even the smallest websites are bombarded with phony comments, form submissions, user registrations, and e-commerce orders. This hurts the user experience and makes life miserable for site owners.

The UK is one of the world's worst performers when it comes to protecting against bots - though most countries are pretty poor. That's according to DataDome, which states that only 1.8% of large UK domains are fully protected against bots, compared with a Europe-wide average of 2.5% and a global average of 2.8%. Bigger organizations are no better than smaller ones, with only 2% of domains with more than 30 million monthly visits fully protected.