Help! My search page is getting hammered by a bot!

AI bots generating/accessing every single combination of facets on a search page, including some that don't even make sense at all: This has become a common problem that can drastically slow down a website.

I will show what site builders can do with contrib modules such as Solr Search, Facets 3 and Antibot to mitigate that - and to optimize the search for users at the same time.

Additionally we will look at measures that can be done on the server, and what custom code can help. Followed by a discussion of what other measures site builders and developers take, and what of these could be formulated as feature requests for contrib modules.