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The 300% AI Bot Surge is Eating Your Resources A simple robots.txt file just doesn’t cut it anymore Times have changed: Managing a website has shifted. Before the AI boom, handling crawler traffic was straightforward, you just threw a few rules into a robots.txt file to tell bots which pages to avoid. This infographic from Kinsta highlights the drastic change in AI bot traffic. Crawlers are getting stuck in expensive loops Fewer requests, faster loads: AI bots aren’t just reading your content; they are faster and significantly less disciplined than traditional search engines. Because they crawl aggressively to scrape as…

We’ve introduced a range of new features and enhancements across both our Management and Booking Apps, designed to help organisations manage their day-to-day activities more efficiently, support staff with quicker access to important information and create a smoother experience for the families using their services. Enhanced SEND Features We’ve rolled out significant updates to improve how SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) information is managed and accessed across the platform. These enhancements have been introduced in response to updated Ofsted requirements and represent one of the most important updates in this release. What’s New? These improvements help ensure important information…

The AI Era Web data has become the most essential resource in AI economy, triggering a legal battle over its ownership and use. This fundamental dispute is forcing courts and regulators to define the new terms and ethical limits under which AI companies can legally access, copy, and utilise this massive store of copyrighted material. Cloudflare’s Allegations: Cloudflare, which provides security and performance services for millions of websites, has made a serious accusation against Perplexity. Cloudflare alleges that Perplexity is ignoring standard web protocols, such as robots.txt files, to scrape content from websites that have specifically forbidden it. According to…

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