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title: "Bot management: definition | Agent Ready Crawlers"
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# Bot management: definition | Agent Ready Crawlers

> Bot management: products that classify automated traffic and allow, challenge, rate-limit or block it, now with separate handling for AI crawlers and agents.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/bot-management
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

Glossary

# Bot management

In short

Products that classify automated traffic and apply allow, challenge, rate-limit or block decisions, increasingly with separate handling for verified AI crawlers and agents. 1.3 percent of home pages carried a header or cookie of a bot product (DataDome, HUMAN, Imperva, Kasada or Arcjet) and 6.1 percent a Cloudflare challenge header. Example: Fastly exposes VERIFIED-BOT.AI-CRAWLER and SUSPECTED-BOT.AI-FETCHER signals.

## Definition

Products that classify automated traffic and apply allow, challenge, rate-limit or block decisions, increasingly with separate handling for verified AI crawlers and agents.

## Sourced example

Fastly exposes VERIFIED-BOT.AI-CRAWLER and SUSPECTED-BOT.AI-FETCHER signals. [Source](https://www.fastly.com/blog/how-to-control-and-monetize-ai-bot-traffic-using-fastly-and-tollbit), read 2026-11-04.

## How it shows up here

1.3 percent of home pages carried a header or cookie of a bot product (DataDome, HUMAN, Imperva, Kasada or Arcjet) and 6.1 percent a Cloudflare challenge header.

-   [Vendor ranking](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/)
-   [Header table in the edition page](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/block-rates/2026-11-04/)

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## Sources

-   [fastly.com: how to control and monetize ai bot traffic using fastly and tollbit](https://www.fastly.com/blog/how-to-control-and-monetize-ai-bot-traffic-using-fastly-and-tollbit) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04