‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

Link →Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm’s latest data. Es geht dabei nicht um klassische Suchmaschinen-Bots und Website-Crawler, sondern tatsächlich um AI-Agenten: Cloudflare reckons these AI agents are online doing stuff like reading product pages, checking prices, performing multi-step tasks online like comparing flights, scraping and indexing web content (but for AI models, not search engines), and acting as personal assistants to order food, compare and shop, and handle customer service interactions. „Wenn die Temperatur steigt, steigen auch die Preise. Die Serverfarmen müssen gekühlt werden.“ (via Waxy)