Bot traffic surpasses human web traffic for first time, Cloudflare data shows
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Samantha Elkins
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For the first time in internet history, bot and AI agent web traffic has surpassed human-generated traffic, according to Cloudflare. The company reports that 57.4% of requests to websites it hosts are now automated bot requests, compared to 42.6% from humans. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince noted this milestone arrived much earlier than his predictions of late 2027, attributing the shift to the rapid growth of agentic AI traffic.
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· 2 pulledWelp, that happened faster than I predicted.
Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history.
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