#Bot #WebTraffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows

#Cloudflare says 57.4% of requests to a selection of websites it hosts are now #AutomatedBot requests, while 42.6% are human-generated.

By Samantha Elkins
June 4, 2026, 6:27 PM EDT

"Website traffic from #AI agents and #bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance and impact.

" 'Welp, that happened faster than I predicted,' #MatthewPrince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, one of the largest internet hosting services, wrote Thursday on X.

“Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027,” he continued, “but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history.”

"The rise is attributed to the continued proliferation of AI agents, largely autonomous programs that use tools that collaborate with high-level programs and data, with little human feedback.

"Cloudflare, which has a feature to display bot versus human-generated search requests, says 57.4% of requests are now initiated by bots, compared with 42.6% coming from humans.

"Humans might browse five websites before making a purchase, however, while an AI service might browse 5,000 websites."

Read more:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/bot-web-traffic-overtaken-human-web-traffic-data-shows-rcna348522

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Uwjne

#WebBots #AIBots #AIAgents #HumanWebTraffic #BotTraffic
#BigData #BigTech is #OutOfControl !

Bots superam humanos e geram 57,5% do tráfego da internet

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://tecnoblog.net/noticias/bots-superam-humanos-e-geram-575-do-trafego-da-internet/

“Cloudflare has revealed it will farewell 1,100 staff, due to its current and future use of AI.

In a blog post that oozes Orwellian “doublespeak,” CEO #MatthewPrince and President/COO #MichelleZatlyn used the headline “Building for the future” to share the email they sent to all #employees

That mail opens: “We are writing to let you know directly that we’ve made the decision to reduce #Cloudflare’s #workforce by more than 1,100 employees globally.”

The post explains, “Cloudflare’s usage of #AI has increased by more than 600% in the last three months alone. Employees across the company from #engineering to #HR to #finance to #marketing run thousands of #AIAgent sessions each day to get their work done.”

#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar < https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/08/cloudflare-to-fire-1100-staff-whose-jobs-just-arent-ai-enough/5235536> / source <https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/>

Cloudflare vs Italie - Le bras de fer sur le Piracy Shield ne fait que commencer

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://korben.info/cloudflare-italie-blocage-piratage-quitter-pays.html

The Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/the-cloudflare-outage-may-be-a-security-roadmap/

#MartinGreenfield #ALittleSunshine #LatestWarnings #TheComingStorm #MatthewPrince #IANSResearch #ReplicaCyber #AaronTurner #NicoleScott #CloudFlare #OWASPTop10 #QuodOrbis

An outage like today is unacceptable. We've architected our systems to be highly resilient to failure to ensure traffic will always continue to flow. When we've had outages in the past it's always led to us building new, more resilient systems.

On behalf of the entire team at Cloudflare, I would like to apologize for the pain we caused the Internet today.

@cloudflare #MatthewPrince
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/