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Bots Generate 57% of Web Traffic, Gibraltar Hits 92%

6/4/2026

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Cloudflare Bot Surge

Cloudflare announced that bots accounted for 57.5% of HTTP requests, surpassing the 42.5% from humans.
Prince said on June 3, 2026 that the crossover happened earlier than his 2027 forecast, noting Radar data showed bots at 57% on April 27, 2026, with later readings 53-60%.
The surge, driven by AI agents that browse, scrape, compare prices and perform multi-step tasks, lifted Gibraltar’s bot traffic to 92.1%.

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Cloudflare Blocks Bots

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Only about 14 % of automated traffic is legitimate, while roughly 37 % is malicious and fuels credential stuffing, account takeovers, data scraping, price manipulation, spam generation and DDoS attacks.
Advertisers and publishers say rising bot traffic erodes metric reliability, prompting Kenya’s digital economy to boost cybersecurity spending against harder-to-detect AI threats.

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Cloudflare Bot Surge

Cloudflare announced that bots accounted for 57.5% of HTTP requests, surpassing the 42.5% from humans.
Prince said on June 3, 2026 that the crossover happened earlier than his 2027 forecast, noting Radar data showed bots at 57% on April 27, 2026, with later readings 53-60%.
The surge, driven by AI agents that browse, scrape, compare prices and perform multi-step tasks, lifted Gibraltar’s bot traffic to 92.1%.

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