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UID:cyber-week-load-calendar-2026-01@scandiweb.com
DTSTAMP:20261109T090000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261117
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SUMMARY:Deadline: bot protection on\, checkout load-tested
DESCRIPTION:Turn on scraper and card-testing bot protection by 16 November\
 , not on Black Friday\, and test checkout under load separately from the h
 omepage and category pages.\n\nSource: scandiweb Cyber Week Load Calendar 
 2026\, https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
URL:https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
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UID:cyber-week-load-calendar-2026-02@scandiweb.com
DTSTAMP:20261109T090000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261118
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SUMMARY:Bot checkout peak (projected from the 2025 pattern)
DESCRIPTION:In 2025 the most bot checkout attempts came nine days before Th
 anksgiving: about 11% of all bot checkouts between 1 November and 2 Decemb
 er\, roughly 3.5 times an average day (Kasada). The same pattern puts this
  year's peak on 17 November.\n\nSource: scandiweb Cyber Week Load Calendar
  2026\, https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
URL:https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
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UID:cyber-week-load-calendar-2026-03@scandiweb.com
DTSTAMP:20261109T090000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261120
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SUMMARY:Second bot wave (2025 pattern)
DESCRIPTION:About 2.4 times an average day's bot checkouts in the 2025 patt
 ern (Kasada).\n\nSource: scandiweb Cyber Week Load Calendar 2026\, https:/
 /scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
URL:https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
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UID:cyber-week-load-calendar-2026-04@scandiweb.com
DTSTAMP:20261109T090000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261126
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SUMMARY:Check how AI tools see the store\; Magento: check admin time zone a
 nd price rules
DESCRIPTION:Most AI crawlers and assistants read the server's raw HTML and 
 do not run JavaScript.\n\nSource: scandiweb Cyber Week Load Calendar 2026\
 , https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
URL:https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
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UID:cyber-week-load-calendar-2026-05@scandiweb.com
DTSTAMP:20261109T090000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261126
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261127
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SUMMARY:Thanksgiving: fastest growth in AI-referred visits
DESCRIPTION:Adobe forecasts visits to US retail sites from AI chat and brow
 ser services to rise 159% year on year\, the fastest growth of any Cyber W
 eek day. Magento stores: 01:00 catalog cache purge (store admin time) if a
  catalog price rule is active.\n\nSource: scandiweb Cyber Week Load Calend
 ar 2026\, https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
URL:https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
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UID:cyber-week-load-calendar-2026-06@scandiweb.com
DTSTAMP:20261109T090000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261128
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SUMMARY:Black Friday: buying peak\, small traffic rise
DESCRIPTION:Adobe forecasts $12.9 billion in US online spending. In 2025 sp
 ending ran at almost three times the November daily average\, while traffi
 c rose 10.8% (Fastly) to 37% (Imperva). The extra load falls on cart and c
 heckout pages\, which Magento's default full-page cache does not cache. Ma
 gento stores: 01:00 catalog cache purge (store admin time) if a catalog pr
 ice rule is active.\n\nSource: scandiweb Cyber Week Load Calendar 2026\, h
 ttps://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
URL:https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
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UID:cyber-week-load-calendar-2026-07@scandiweb.com
DTSTAMP:20261109T090000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261201
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SUMMARY:Cyber Monday
DESCRIPTION:Adobe forecasts a record $15.1 billion in US online spending. M
 agento stores: 01:00 catalog cache purge (store admin time) if a catalog p
 rice rule is active.\n\nSource: scandiweb Cyber Week Load Calendar 2026\, 
 https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
URL:https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
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UID:cyber-week-load-calendar-2026-08@scandiweb.com
DTSTAMP:20261109T090000Z
DTSTART:20261201T010000Z
DTEND:20261201T030000Z
SUMMARY:Cyber Monday spending peak\, 8-10 p.m. ET
DESCRIPTION:In 2025 spending peaked between 8 and 10 p.m. Eastern at $16 mi
 llion a minute (Adobe).\n\nSource: scandiweb Cyber Week Load Calendar 2026
 \, https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
URL:https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
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UID:cyber-week-load-calendar-2026-09@scandiweb.com
DTSTAMP:20261109T090000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261202
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SUMMARY:Travel Tuesday: account-takeover attempts nearly tripled in 2025
DESCRIPTION:Magento stores: 01:00 catalog cache purge (store admin time) if
  a catalog price rule is active.\n\nSource: scandiweb Cyber Week Load Cale
 ndar 2026\, https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
URL:https://scandiweb.com/blog/cyber-week-load-calendar/
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