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My advice to little sites: Basic Auth stops bots dead in their tracks. The credentials have to be discoverable of course, which makes it useless for most sites, but it's not that inconvenient. Once entered, browsers offer to use the same creds on subsequent visits. I have several apps that use 3D assets that are large enough for it to become worrisome when hundreds of bots are requesting them day and night. Not any more, lol.

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That's a good advice, thank you.

In our approach we do our best to not to affect user experience. E.g. consider an example of a company website with a blog. The company does it's best to engage more audience to their blog, products whatever. I guess quite a part of the audience will be lost due to requirement of authentication on website, which they see first time.

However, for returning, and especially regular, clients I think that is a really simple and good solution.

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