Cloudflare CEO: Nonhuman Web Traffic Has Overtaken Humans, Could Hit 1000x in 5 Years
Beth_Kindig · x · 2026-08-14
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince stated that nonhuman traffic (primarily AI crawlers and bots) has now surpassed human traffic on the web. He predicted that if current trends continue, nonhuman traffic could reach 1,000 times the volume of human traffic within five years.
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