@Bredroll
No we do not appear to have appropriate metrics nor the ability to measure this; if we did there would be more clarity. I’m not sure the BBC article clarifies much, & after reading many threads on the ‘subject’ I’m not sure we are all talking about the same thing:
“Cloudflare clarified its data includes all automated internet requests to websites hosted on its network, including bots crawling websites for information.
“The company also said the drop off was "not necessarily bot behaviour on social media platforms".”
Not necessarily but also not necessarily not… how does this clarify anything? What I am sure of is that we need to get a lot smarter about this stuff & one idea could be to find a way to integrate the anecdata rather than dismissing so many different peoples’ experiences as ‘confirmation bias’.