AI Agents Now Generate More Web Traffic Than Humans
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he didn't expect this milestone until 2027.
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The internet just crossed a remarkable threshold. Agentic AI internet traffic now exceeds that of real humans for the first time.
"Welp, that happened faster than I predicted," Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said in a post on X on Wednesday. "Thought it would be [at the] end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic [is] growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history."
He backed up his claim with a post to Cloudflare Radar, the company's internet measurement system, showing that agentic bot usage is up to 57.4% of total traffic, while human traffic has dropped to 42.6%.
Prince said in another postthat the data is "a bit messy" but "clearly on the other side now," indicating this is a trend...
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