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

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%.