The Internet has a second audience
Cloudflare says non-human traffic now exceeds half the Internet as AI agent requests surged more than 1,700%.
Cloudflare reports average HTTP traffic nearly doubled from 63 million requests per second at the end of 2024 to about 115 million, with peaks above 150 million, and says more than half of Internet traffic this year was not human. Daily requests from AI agents grew more than 1,700% over the past year, while human traffic in some heavily crawled categories fell as much as 40%. The post separates search, agent, and training controls, cites more than 500 billion cryptographically verified bot requests a week via Web Bot Auth, and says Apple, Google, and Microsoft will honor Disallow AI Training.
- Cloudflare traffic rose from 63 million to about 115 million requests per second.
- Daily AI-agent requests grew more than 1,700% in a year.
- Cloudflare says more than half of Internet traffic this year was not human.
- Some crawled categories lost as much as 40% of human traffic.
- Apple, Google, and Microsoft committed to honor Disallow AI Training.
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9 min read at blog.cloudflare.com
More than half the traffic reaching sites on Cloudflare is now automated, and AI agents are the fastest-growing part of it. We're giving site owners the tools to see who's visiting, decide who gets in, and charge for access.
By Matthew Conroy · blog.cloudflare.com
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