Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince posted that Cloudflare Radar's seven-day real-time
monitoring showed bots accounted for 57.5% of global HTTP requests for HTML
pages versus 42.5% for humans, marking a first and occurring more than a year
earlier than industry forecasts. The claim drew skepticism: critics say current
methods struggle to distinguish automated requests from human-driven ones, some
bot-classified traffic reflects crawlers or scripts rather than autonomous
agents, and the metric covers only HTML page requests; by total internet
bandwidth (video streaming, infinite-scroll social feeds, in-app APIs)
human-originated traffic still represents roughly 65%.