Cloudflare Chief Says Humans Will Soon Be 'a Rounding Error on the Internet' as Bot Traffic Takes over — so What Is It Doing to Combat This?
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Bots and AI agents are being used more than humans. Cloudflare, the world's largest content delivery service, has stated that there are now more bots than humans on the internet. This trend is not stopping, but will more than double.
Bots Drive Over a Third of Web Traffic Amid Surging Agentic Activity
Web traffic patterns have shifted sharply. Machines now account for 35% of visits across thousands of sites tracked by Known Agents, down just 2% from the prior quarter. That share reflects a broader move toward automated systems handling discovery and interaction once left to people. Data from 5,000-plus websites using their analytics tools shows clear trends. Agentrification, the portion of activity tied to autonomous AI agents, reached 28% an…
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technewstube.comCloudflare chief says humans will soon be 'a rounding error on the Internet' as bot traffic takes over — so what is it doing to combat this?
Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert predicts machine-generated traffic could outnumber humans by a 1,000 times in the next five yearsThe answer to this, Seifert believes, is to ensure servers are efficient enough to handle demandCloudflare previously predicted machines would outnumber humans in 2027, but this digital soothsaying was 12 months outMachine-generated internet traffic is already outnumbering that by humans, and it shows no sign of declinin…
The traffic generated by humans on the Internet is preparing to become an irrelevant fraction in the next five years. The alert comes from Cloudflare. The latest estimates project that automated activity...
Something has changed on the internet with the rise of artificial intelligence. An increasing portion of web traffic is now generated not by humans, but by automated programs, and there is no sign of human traffic decreasing.
The share of automated access to the Internet is expected to rise dramatically in the coming years.
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