Cloudflare's internet-measurement tool, Cloudflare Radar, shows agentic AI bots now generate the majority of web requests, at 57.4% versus 42.6% from humans, data shared by CEO Matthew Prince on X and reported by NBC News, CNET, SiliconANGLE and Tom's Hardware. Prince wrote, "Welp, that happened faster than I predicted," and in a follow-up post called the underlying data "a bit messy." Reporting clarifies the surge comes from agents that search the web on behalf of AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Gemini, not legacy crawlers. Regional variance is wide: North America skews to about 68.6% agentic traffic, while in the US Midwest humans still lead at 54.5%, per CNET and SiliconANGLE.
