How do you block bot traffic on a storefront?
Behavioral detection at the network edge is the effective layer: score sessions on signals bots cannot cheaply fake, and block before requests reach the store. Rate limits and CAPTCHAs alone are not enough.
Crude bots fall to IP reputation lists, data-center range blocking, and rate limiting. Sophisticated bots - residential proxies, real browser engines, human-like timing - require behavioral analysis: session velocity, interaction patterns, and fingerprint consistency.
The strongest architecture runs this detection at the edge, in front of the storefront, so hostile sessions are stopped before they load pages, fire pixels, or touch inventory. Purpose-built products exist for exactly this; whatever the tooling, the principle is detection as close to the network edge as possible.