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For the first time on record, automated traffic has overtaken human-initiated requests online. The shift has been building for years, and the effects on hosting infrastructure are no longer abstract.
Cloudflare has released a new dashboard giving publishers granular data on AI crawler behavior, including crawl-to-referral ratios that expose just how extractive bot traffic has become.
One year after declaring Content Independence Day, Cloudflare reports that AI training crawlers have overtaken traditional search bots, and more than half of all internet traffic is now non-human.
