Imperva's network blocked 13 trillion malicious bot requests in 2024. Trillion with a T. Do the arithmetic: 35.6 billion requests per day, 413 million per hour, 6.9 million requests every single minute, all year long.
The number itself tells you something about what defending the modern web actually requires. Every one of those 13 trillion requests got identified, analyzed, and blocked in real-time. Each one cost computational cycles, network bandwidth, decision latency. The infrastructure processing that volume—making 6.9 million binary decisions per minute, continuously—exists at a scale most people never see.
For context: automated traffic crossed 51% of all web traffic in 2024, the first time bots outnumbered humans in a decade. The defensive infrastructure scaled accordingly. An entire parallel internet built for bot defense now operates at volumes that make consumer security tools look like toys.