#online traffic

Machines now send more than half the traffic moving across the web. It marks the first time automated traffic has passed people since the web opened to the public. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. He said agentic traffic grew so fast that bots passed humans years ahead of his estimate. Before the generative AI boom, bots sat at roughly 20 percent of traffic, mostly Googlebot and similar indexers. Prince said an agent often visits up to 1,000 times the number of pages a human would, and that load is real traffic servers have to carry. Gibraltar tops the list at 92.1 percent bot traffic, a tiny territory packed with data centers. Read more in our articles including "Bots Now Outpace Humans Online, Cloudflare CEO Says" and "Google’s NotebookLM rebrands to Gemini Notebook".