Yandex bot traffic drops 99% after data center attack, Cloudflare Radar shows
rooftopzen · hn · 2026-10-12
Cloudflare Radar data shows Yandex's crawler (AS13238) bot traffic collapsed by roughly 99% over the past week, apparently following an attack on its data center. The HN post links to the live Radar dashboard for the 7-day window. The outage has direct implications for sites relying on Yandex indexing and for search traffic in Yandex-heavy markets.
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