TechRadar reports a fall in automated requests from Yandex’s network

TechRadar links to Cloudflare Radar’s automated-request section for AS13238, Yandex LLC’s network. Cloudflare observes requests reaching websites that use its infrastructure. This measures requests from Yandex’s network to those websites. It does not measure all Yandex services, their visitor numbers or all Russian internet traffic.

A request is a program asking a website for something, such as a page’s text. Request counts and user counts are different: one program can request many pages. This chart covers requests Cloudflare classifies as likely automated. That is a technical assessment of behaviour, not a list of program owners.

A bot is software that performs actions automatically. A familiar example is a search crawler: it visits web pages and saves information for a search engine. Yandex documents this crawling and indexing process. But the report provides no breakdown by named bots, so the entire flow cannot be attributed to Yandex’s search crawler.

TechRadar cited 0.4% of a two-week peak. Its article provides no measurement export or dated chart image; the link opens a rolling “last seven days” window. NewsTok could not reproduce the number. It remains TechRadar’s claim, not a verified measure of the decline in all Yandex traffic.

Politics entered our previous wording through the TechRadar author’s caveat: automated requests should not be equated with fake social-media accounts spreading pro-Kremlin messages. The report contains no measurements of those accounts’ activity. It does not report the shutdown of an identified political bot network.

Clarification, 15 October 2026. Our previous headline used the overly broad phrase “falling Yandex traffic”. We have clarified request direction and measurement scope, removed the unverified figure from the summary and replaced the unsupported 11–14 October event range with the source’s publication date, 13 October.