Cloudflare CEO claims bot traffic surpasses human traffic for the first time

Odaily reported that Matthew Prince, CEO of network infrastructure provider Cloudflare, stated that real-time monitoring over the past 7 days by Cloudflare Radar shows that among global HTTP requests for HTML web content, bot traffic has reached 57.5%, surpassing human traffic (42.5%) for the first time. This shift has occurred more than a year earlier than industry predictions.

After the data was released, some netizens raised questions, pointing out that it is currently difficult to distinguish whether requests come from bots or humans behind the bots. Additionally, not all bot traffic originates from AI agents; some may come from crawlers or scripts. Furthermore, this data only pertains to HTML web page requests. When considering total internet bandwidth (video streaming, infinite scrolling on social media, in-app APIs), human traffic still accounts for approximately 65%, maintaining an absolute majority. (Yicai)