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Bot weather report

What the bots are doing right now

Live bot pressure across the whole Shield network over the last 24 hours, computed from the same hourly aggregates that power every widget's analytics. No customer data, no visitor data. Just the weather.

Live from shield.edge.network/weather. Updates every 5 minutes.

Bot pressure indexreading…

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Reading the instruments…

calmstormy

Updated every 5 minutes

Challenges issued
—background verification attempts
Avg humanity score
—across solved challenges
Interactive escalations
—asked for one click
Replay attempts caught
—tokens presented twice
Tarpit challenges served
—harder work for repeat offenders
Verified agents
—signed with Web Bot Auth

Last 24 hours

Challenges Escalations Avg score (0–100)
Escalation rate—
Verify failure rate—
Replay rate—
Low-score share—

How the pressure index works

Four rates, one number

The bot pressure index blends four network-wide rates from the last 24 hours into a score from 0 to 100: the share of solved traffic in the bottom three humanity-score deciles, the rate of background attempts escalated to a click, the siteverify failure rate, and the replay-attempt rate.
  • Computed only from hourly aggregate counters
  • Honeypot widgets, which exist to attract bots, are excluded
  • Shield keeps no per-visitor data, so there's nothing finer-grained to leak

Open data

The raw feed is public

Build your own dashboard, a status widget or a terminal toy. It's plain JSON with open CORS, cached for five minutes.
Open the JSON
terminal
curl -s https://shield.edge.network/weather | jq '.pressure'

{
  "index": 37,
  "label": "Breezy",
  "trend": "steady",
  "components": {
    "escalationRate": 13.4,
    "verifyFailureRate": 79.8,
    "replayRate": 0,
    "lowScoreShare": 0.7
  }
}

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