Now, more than 90% of the traffic to online store websites is generated by bots looking for DDR5

As we all know, the rapid development of computing infrastructure for artificial intelligence systems in the past few years has led to shortages and price increases of RAM, but related technologies are also used when looking for memory modules at retail. researcher claimin some cases, more than 90% of clicks to online store pages selling DDR5 memory are now generated by soft robots.

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It turns out that out of 10 visits to the profile page of an online store, only 1 request comes from a living person. A study by DataDome found that 91 DDR5 products in online retail received an average of approximately 50,000 hits per hour. There were an average of 551 requests per page, and every 6.5 seconds someone checked to see if the required memory was available. The website pages these robots turn to offer not only DDR5 gaming mods, but also connectors for mounting them onto motherboards. In addition, these software tools use a method of refreshing web pages more frequently to avoid receiving outdated product availability data from the cache.

In comparison, the ratio of automated requests in March reached “6:1”, so judging from its increase, the demand for RAM is still high. The chances of an average buyer purchasing memory at a price suitable for current market conditions are getting smaller and smaller, since all the most interesting offers go to specialized bots.