Tom Cuthbert, the president of Click Forensics, said this was the highest rate of click fraud that the company had seen in its three years of monitoring.
Over the last year, the rate of click fraud has risen drastically, reaching the highest rate since measurement began in 2006, according to Click Forensics, a firm that analyzes traffic on behalf of advertisers and ad networks.
"The average rate of clicking on a banner ad for a website is well below 1percentt.
Advertisers are more inclined to bid higher when there's a better rate of click-throughs to view their advertised services.
Of course, if a conversion rate of click to install is close to a 100% the traffic is likely to come from bots.
It also claims mouthwatering rates of "click through".
He said that rates of click fraud, and especially of botnet activity, had risen sharply.
We found that the latter method approximately doubled the rates of clicking on the links to study protocol and results respectively, though overall only one quarter of this group clicked on any links (McCambridge, Kypri, and Wilson 2012).
In this experiment, two katydids were presented computer playbacks of 100 sharp click sounds at a uniform rate of two clicks per second, in alternating trials of ordinary incandescent room light and near-complete darkness (six light trials, six dark trials).
The clicks were distributed regularly with a constant distance at a rate of 40 clicks per second each of 1 ms duration.
