Scalper Bots Drove 91% of DDR5 Page Traffic at 1 Retailer as Stock Checks Intensified
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Updated · VideoCardz.com · Aug 23
Scalper Bots Drove 91% of DDR5 Page Traffic at 1 Retailer as Stock Checks Intensified
3 articles · Updated · VideoCardz.com · Aug 23
Summary
91% of visits to DDR5 product pages at one unnamed retailer came from bad bots, DataDome said, equal to roughly 10 automated requests for every legitimate shopper.
50,000 requests hit 91 DDR5 listings in a single hour, with each page checked about every 6.5 seconds as bots forced fresh inventory data using cache-busting parameters.
One scraping operation alone generated more than 10 million requests before being blocked, and the traffic targeted not just gaming memory kits but suppliers including Micron and Apacer.
The figure covers product-page traffic rather than completed purchases and applies to one retailer, but it still marks a sharp rise from March, when bot traffic was about six times legitimate visits.