‘Happened Faster Than I Predicted’: Bots Now Generate More Internet Traffic Than Humans

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Last Updated:June 07, 2026, 17:15 IST

Cloudflare's latest data shows that bots now generate 57.5% of HTTP requests across the internet, while human users account for the remaining 42.5%.

Bots have overtaken humans in generating internet traffic for the first time, according to Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare, a leading internet infrastructure and cybersecurity company.

In a post on X, Prince said that “agentic traffic" is growing so quickly that automated systems now account for the majority of online activity.

He noted that the shift had happened much earlier than he expected, after previously predicting that bots would surpass human-generated traffic in 2027.

Cloudflare’s latest data shows that bots now generate 57.5 per cent of HTTP requests across the internet, while human users account for the remaining 42.5 per cent. Although Prince acknowledged that it is difficult to identify the exact point when bots overtook humans because the data is complex, he said the internet is now “clearly on the other side".

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