{"id":14229,"date":"2026-06-04T14:34:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14229"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:37:55","slug":"mo-mo-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/04\/mo-mo-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo&#8217; Mo&#8217; Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/bot-web-traffic-overtaken-human-web-traffic-data-shows-rcna348522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from NBC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bot web traffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cloudflare says 57.4% of requests to a selection of websites it hosts are now automated bot requests, while 42.6% are human-generated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0Samantha Elkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-560w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2026-06\/260604-empty-cubicles-stock-mn-1535-9813b3.jpg\" alt=\"empty corporate cubicles\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Humans might browse five websites before making a purchase, while an AI service might browse 5,000.John Lund \/ Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI\u2019s rapid advance and impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWelp, that happened faster than I predicted,\u201d Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, one of the largest internet hosting services,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/eastdakota\/status\/2062212701414187452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote Thursday on X.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027,\u201d he continued, \u201cbut agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet\u2019s history.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rise is attributed to the continued proliferation of AI agents, largely autonomous programs that use tools that collaborate with high-level programs and data, with little human feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cloudflare, which has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/radar.cloudflare.com\/traffic#bot-vs-human\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a feature to display<\/a>&nbsp;bot versus human-generated search requests, says 57.4% of requests are now initiated by bots, compared with 42.6% coming from humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/bot-web-traffic-overtaken-human-web-traffic-data-shows-rcna348522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NBC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NBC Bot web traffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows Cloudflare says 57.4% of requests to a selection of websites it hosts are now automated bot requests, while 42.6% are human-generated. By\u00a0Samantha Elkins Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14230,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229\/revisions\/14230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}