CloudFlare Uses Intelligent Caching to Avoid the Bot Performance Tax

The article discusses how automated bots significantly impact website performance. It highlights that on average, 20% of a website's requests come from some form of automated bot, including search engine crawlers and malicious ones. These bots often trigger pages not frequently accessed, leading to increased load on databases and servers. The author suggests implementing two different systems to handle these bots: restricting known malicious crawlers and modifying caching strategies for search engine crawlers. By doing so, the performance of a website can be significantly improved.