How Film Industry Data Website The-Numbers.com got Mauled by Bots
How Film Industry Data Website The-Numbers.com Got Mauled By Bots No comments by: Maya Posch July 25, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy A lot has been made about the increase of automated traffic on the Internet, with the past years LLM-related crawlers having quite literally swarmed the picture here. Not only does this drive up traffic, it also increases load on web servers, whose owners find themselves faced with increased hosting costs. This recently led to The-Numbers.com going offline for a while as automated traffic was quite literally destroying their bottom line.
- ▪How Film Industry Data Website The-Numbers.com Got Mauled By Bots No comments by: Maya Posch July 25, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy A lot has been made about the increase of automated traffic on the Internet, with the past years LLM-rel
- ▪Not only does this drive up traffic, it also increases load on web servers, whose owners find themselves faced with increased hosting costs.
- ▪This recently led to The-Numbers.com going offline for a while as automated traffic was quite literally destroying their bottom line.
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How Film Industry Data Website The-Numbers.com Got Mauled By Bots No comments by: Maya Posch July 25, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy A lot has been made about the increase of automated traffic on the Internet, with the past years LLM-related crawlers having quite literally swarmed the picture here. Not only does this drive up traffic, it also increases load on web servers, whose owners find themselves faced with increased hosting costs. This recently led to The-Numbers.com going offline for a while as automated traffic was quite literally destroying their bottom line. This saga is covered by [Stephen Follows], who had a chance to talk with the founder and CEO of the site, [Bruce Nash], after the site went basically offline for a few months.
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