--- title: Ryabitsev: Creepy crawlies | daily.dev description: Konstantin Ryabitsev shares statistics on AI crawler traffic hitting git.kernel.org, the Linux kernel's Git hosting service. The site receives about 6 million... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ryabitsev-creepy-crawlies-lzv5voiki twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ryabitsev: Creepy crawlies | daily.dev og:description: Konstantin Ryabitsev shares statistics on AI crawler traffic hitting git.kernel.org, the Linux kernel's Git hosting service. The site receives about 6 million... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ryabitsev-creepy-crawlies-lzv5voiki og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LZV5vOiki.png og:image:alt: Ryabitsev: Creepy crawlies og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ryabitsev: Creepy crawlies **[LWN.net](https://daily.dev/sources/lwn)** · 1 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Konstantin Ryabitsev shares statistics on AI crawler traffic hitting git.kernel.org, the Linux kernel's Git hosting service. The site receives about 6 million daily requests for random commits, with 66% blocked by the Anubis proof-of-work challenge and 33% getting through by solving it. After generous assumptions, legitimate human traffic is estimated at only about 2% of total requests, with the rest attributed to scrapers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What percentage of traffic to git.kernel.org is legitimate human traffic versus bots? About 2% of git.kernel.org traffic is estimated to be legitimate, even with generous assumptions favoring human visitors. The site gets roughly 6 million daily requests for random commits, and while 66% are blocked by the Anubis proof-of-work challenge, 33% still solve it and get through, indicating aggressive AI scraper activity. _Anyone tracking how AI crawlers strain open source infrastructure can follow the story on daily.dev._ ### What is the Anubis challenge used for on git.kernel.org? Anubis is a proof-of-work challenge deployed on git.kernel.org to filter out automated bot traffic by requiring clients to solve a computational puzzle before accessing the site. Despite this, 33% of the roughly 6 million daily requests still successfully solve the challenge and reach the main site, showing scrapers are willing to spend compute to get through. _Developers evaluating bot-mitigation tools like Anubis can keep up with real-world results on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#git](https://daily.dev/tags/git), [#crawling](https://daily.dev/tags/crawling) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ryabitsev-creepy-crawlies-lzv5voiki) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Ryabitsev: Creepy crawlies","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ryabitsev-creepy-crawlies-lzv5voiki","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ryabitsev-creepy-crawlies-lzv5voiki"},"datePublished":"2026-08-29T09:35:25.047Z","dateModified":"2026-08-31T10:51:10.487Z","description":"Konstantin Ryabitsev shares statistics on AI crawler traffic hitting git.kernel.org, the Linux kernel's Git hosting service. 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