Bot web traffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows

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More than half of all web traffic now comes from bots rather than humans, according to data from Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure company. The firm found that 57.4 percent of requests to websites it hosts are automated bot requests, while only 42.6 percent come from actual people. The shift reflects the proliferation of scrapers, crawlers, and AI systems that constantly scan the internet, often without users' knowledge. Cloudflare's findings suggest that the human internet experience, what people actually see and interact with, represents less than half of all digital activity occurring on the web.