What are some common indicators that a PHP script is accessing a website in a non-human way, and how can developers mitigate these risks to avoid detection?

When a PHP script is accessing a website in a non-human way, it can be detected by analyzing the request patterns, such as frequent and repetitive requests, lack of user-agent headers, and unusual traffic spikes. To mitigate these risks and avoid detection, developers can simulate more human-like behavior by adding delays between requests, randomizing user-agent headers, and rotating IP addresses. 

// Simulate human-like behavior by adding delays between requests
sleep(rand(1, 5)); // Random delay between 1 to 5 seconds

// Randomize user-agent headers to avoid detection
$userAgents = [
    'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3',
    'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3',
    'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3',
];
$randomUserAgent = $userAgents[array_rand($userAgents)];

// Rotate IP addresses to avoid detection
$proxyList = ['proxy1.example.com', 'proxy2.example.com', 'proxy3.example.com'];
$randomProxy = $proxyList[array_rand($proxyList)];

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