Site owner reports 99% of 1.5M-page site's traffic came from scrapers

Source content was not available to summarize. Only the headline and URL were provided; the article body was not included in the request, and a direct fetch of the page returned HTTP 403 Forbidden (the site appears to block automated retrieval). The headline and URL slug indicate a first-person account of a year spent defending a 1.5-million-page website against scrapers, with a claim that roughly 99% of the site’s traffic was bots — but the specific observations, defenses, and outcomes cannot be verified without the text.