AI Crawlers Are Hammering Your WordPress Site
AI bots can generate thousands of expensive page requests on a WordPress site. Why it happens, why robots.txt won't stop it, and what to do before September 15.
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AI bots can generate thousands of expensive page requests on a WordPress site. Why it happens, why robots.txt won't stop it, and what to do before September 15.
A site with 15 visitors a day blocked 1,170 attacks in 24 hours. Nobody targeted it, nobody has heard of it. Here's why being small doesn't protect you.