WHAT JUST HAPPENED? The internet has passed a very unwelcome milestone: for the first time in history, bots have surpassed human traffic online. The announcement came from Cloudflare CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince, who said the rapid growth of agentic internet traffic is responsible.
Prince said that while he had predicted bot traffic would surpass humans, he believed it would happen toward the end of 2027. Cloudflare Radar shows bots currently make up around 56% of all traffic, though that figure has been as high as 62% over the last week. The CEO said the crossover from human to bot domination happened over the last few months, but it's only now becoming obvious.
Cloudflare's regional breakdown shows that bot traffic is far from evenly distributed. Gibraltar currently has one of the most extreme splits, with more than 90% of HTTP requests from the British Overseas Territory classified as automated.
Singapore and Iran also sit high on the list, each with bot traffic making up more than three-quarters of requests. Those figures don't mean the regions are filled with bot operators; they're more likely a reflection of hosting infrastructure, routing, VPN use, and other factors that can make automated traffic appear to originate from specific locations.
