# Glossary | Bot Traffic Index

Source: https://bottrafficindex.com/glossary/

### Scraper bot

Automated software that copies catalog content, pricing, or images from a storefront - typically for competitor monitoring, counterfeiting, or content reuse.

### Inventory hoarding bot

A purchasing bot that adds scarce items to carts or completes checkout faster than human shoppers, usually to resell at a markup.

### Click fraud

Automated or incentivized fake ad clicks that spend an advertiser's budget without any real shopper behind them.

### Residential proxy

An intermediary that routes bot traffic through real household IP addresses, making requests look like ordinary shoppers and defeating IP-based blocking.

### Behavioral bot detection

Identifying automation from how a session behaves - timing, interaction patterns, fingerprint consistency - rather than from static signals like IP address or user agent.

### Edge blocking

Stopping hostile traffic at the network edge, before requests reach the storefront server - which keeps fake sessions out of analytics, pixels, and inventory systems entirely.