The silent infrastructure crisis: AI bots and the future of web performance

A technical deep dive into AI bot traffic’s infrastructure, security, and performance impacts, backed by Fastly’s large-scale 2025 analysis.

Speakers: Chris Buckley

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November 04, 2025

AI bots now represent a distinct architectural challenge beyond traditional bot management, with real-world traffic patterns reaching 39,000 requests per minute from a single fetcher bot. This deeply technical session examines the infrastructure, security, and performance implications of AI-driven web traffic through hard data from Fastly’s Q2 2025 analysis of 6.5 trillion monthly requests.

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