Mastodawn

It's official. The internet now belongs to the machines.

Only 42.5% of website visits now come from actual people.

For the first time ever, bots are the dominant population online, and we’re becoming the minority species.

Congratulations humanity!

Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm’s latest data.

Tom's Hardware

So here’s the question: if more machines are reading the internet than people, what exactly are we writing for?

Is it still worth writing for an internet increasingly dominated by machines, or should I simply accept my fate and quietly disappear into oblivion?

The web was designed for people. Today, machines are its dominant inhabitants.

The Climate Historian