Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm’s latest data.
“Welp, that happened faster than I predicted,” Prince awkwardly admitted, making his previous expectations of the crossover happening sometime in 2027 seem way off the mark.
Cloudflare reckons these AI agents are online doing stuff like reading product pages, checking prices, performing multi-step tasks online like comparing flights, scraping and indexing web content (but for AI models, not search engines), and acting as personal assistants to order food, compare and shop, and handle customer service interactions.
At the time of writing, Cloudflare data suggests that the balance between bot vs. human web traffic (HTTP requests) is already firmly favoring the former, split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent.
June 4, 2026
