Bots surpass humans in global web traffic for the first time, Cloudflare CEO reports
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Devesh Beri
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Summary
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced that bots now generate more web traffic than humans, with bot requests accounting for roughly 57% of HTML page loads on Cloudflare's network. This shift occurred about a year ahead of Prince's own forecast, which predicted AI-driven traffic would overtake humans in 2027. The milestone marks a fundamental change in how the internet will likely operate going forward, as security firms also report a sharp jump in AI traffic on websites.
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· 3 pulledCloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says bots now generate more web traffic than humans, marking a fundamental shift in how the internet will likely operate for the foreseeable future.
Welp, that happened faster than I predicted.
bot requests now account for roughly 57% of HTML page loads on sites that run on Cloudflare's network.
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