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  1. Web crawlers insights

    Radar now offers expanded insights into web crawlers, giving you greater visibility into aggregated trends in crawl and refer activity.

    We have introduced the following endpoints:

    These endpoints allow analysis across the following dimensions:

    • user_agent: Parsed data from the User-Agent header.
    • referer: Parsed data from the Referer header.
    • crawl_refer_ratio: Ratio of HTML page crawl requests to HTML page referrals by platform.

    Broader bot insights

    In addition to crawler-specific insights, Radar now provides a broader set of bot endpoints:

    These endpoints support filtering and breakdowns by:

    • bot: Bot name.
    • bot_operator: The organization or entity operating the bot.
    • bot_category: Classification of bot type.

    The previously available verified_bots endpoints have now been deprecated in favor of this set of bot insights APIs. While current data still focuses on verified bots, we plan to expand support for unverified bot traffic in the future.

    Learn more about the new Radar bot and crawler insights in our blog post.

  1. Radar has expanded its security insights, providing visibility into aggregate trends in authentication requests, including the detection of leaked credentials through leaked credentials detection scans.

    We have now introduced the following endpoints:

    The following dimensions are available, displaying the distribution of HTTP authentication requests based on:

    • compromised: Credential status (clean vs. compromised).
    • bot_class: Bot class (human vs. bot).

    Dive deeper into leaked credential detection in this blog post and learn more about the expanded Radar security insights in our blog post.

  1. Radar has expanded its DNS insights, providing visibility into aggregated traffic and usage trends observed by our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. In addition to global, location, and ASN traffic trends, we are also providing perspectives on protocol usage, query/response characteristics, and DNSSEC usage.

    Previously limited to the top locations and ASes endpoints, we have now introduced the following endpoints:

    For the summary and timeseries_groups endpoints, the following dimensions are available, displaying the distribution of DNS queries based on:

    • cache_hit: Cache status (hit vs. miss).
    • dnsssec: DNSSEC support status (secure, insecure, invalid or other).
    • dnsssec_aware: DNSSEC client awareness (aware vs. not-aware).
    • dnsssec_e2e: End-to-end security (secure vs. insecure).
    • ip_version: IP version (IPv4 vs. IPv6).
    • matching_answer: Matching answer status (match vs. no-match).
    • protocol: Transport protocol (UDP, TLS, HTTPS or TCP).
    • query_type: Query type (A, AAAA, PTR, etc.).
    • response_code: Response code (NOERROR, NXDOMAIN, REFUSED, etc.).
    • response_ttl: Response TTL.

    Learn more about the new Radar DNS insights in our blog post, and check out the new Radar page.

  1. Radar has expanded its AI insights with new API endpoints for Internet services rankings, robots.txt analysis, and AI inference data.

    Internet services ranking

    Radar now provides rankings for Internet services, including Generative AI platforms, based on anonymized 1.1.1.1 resolver data. Previously limited to the annual Year in Review, these insights are now available daily via the API, through the following endpoints:

    Robots.txt

    Radar now analyzes robots.txt files from the top 10,000 domains, identifying AI bot access rules. AI-focused user agents from ai.robots.txt are categorized as:

    • Fully allowed/disallowed if directives apply to all paths (*).
    • Partially allowed/disallowed if restrictions apply to specific paths.

    These insights are now available weekly via the API, through the following endpoints:

    Workers AI

    Radar now provides insights into public AI inference models from Workers AI, tracking usage trends across models and tasks. These insights are now available via the API, through the following endpoints:

    Learn more about the new Radar AI insights in our blog post.