Bot traffic now outpaces human traffic on the internet, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says, years ahead of his late 2027 forecast. He blames AI agents for the surge. His conclusion for the future of the web: "Clearly it's going to be pay to crawl."

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

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...

Cloudflare's CEO didn't expect this to happen until next year.

Bot traffic now outpaces human traffic on the internet, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says, years ahead of his late 2027 forecast. He blames AI agents for the surge. His…

Cloudflare says that 57.4% of requests to a selection of websites it hosts are now automated bot requests, while 42.6% are human-generated web requests.

AI agent web traffic has surpassed that of humans, lending weight to the 'dead internet' theory - SiliconANGLE

For the first time in internet history, bots now generate more online traffic than humans, a shift Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince expected to occur in 2027.

Il capo di Cloudflare si aspettava il sorpasso all’inizio del 2027, ma ai bot tradizionali si sono aggiunti gli agenti che hanno accelerato la corsa

Shift likely driven by exponential rise of websites powered by AI

According to Cloudflare's estimates, almost 60% of all Internet traffic worldwide is generated by automated scripts, including traditional crawlers, search indexers, malware bots,…