PatronView owner details year-long battle with scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human load ratio
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Nick Gray, owner of the 1.5-million-page site PatronView, published a detailed account of a year spent fighting scrapers, reporting a 214:1 bot-to-human page load ratio. He noted 35,000 Claude crawls per referred user, while Amazon's bot referred no users, and described what he tried, what failed, and what is currently working.
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Nick Gray / PatronView : Owner of 1.5M-page site PatronView on a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35K Claude crawls per referred user, Amazon bot referred none — A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what's working now. August 7, 2026
