📰AI News Bots have now passed human traffic online

[Dopious]

Agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history.

Thoughts?

Source: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human

 

[Spicy Nug]

Sad state of affairs. Dead internet theory has become real.

 

[Dopious]

Sad state of affairs. Dead internet theory has become real.

Na, Instead of the human internet being completely "dead" or replaced, the reality is that human traffic is still growing, but bot traffic is growing much faster.

 

[RiskyStuff]

Thoughts?

Like always. It's "Cloudflare" statistic and we know Cloudflare is the weakest link of the internet chain.

They mess up user experience every single day. Their captchas are nonsense blocking whole page load.

And now they mess up statistics. Look at that statistic and what it tells you. They don't define what they mean by "bot". I don't see breakdown of types of bots.

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Sad state of affairs. Dead internet theory has become real.

Isn't it just caused by AI doing retrieval augmented generation?

Behind every human, there might be a bot because everyone uses AI.

 

[RiskyStuff]

I found types of bots.

You would think... create a backlink to your types of bots breakdown... not on cloudflare. They might have everything, but they will not attempt to do it with good experience in mind.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots

Top types of bots:

Search Engine Crawler, AI Crawler, Page Preview, Advertising & Marketing, AI Crawler, AI Assistant, Webhooks, Aggregator, Monitoring & Analytics

Nothing interesting here. Mostly scrapers and rags. Fcking rags.

Edit: actually it's interesting because those types of bots are where the biggiest money is. Create aggregator, AI assistant, AI... very profitable.

 

[roydan]

Honestly, the number of times Cloudflare though I was a bot makes me question their stats.

 

[RiskyStuff]

Honestly, the number of times Cloudflare though I was a bot makes me question their stats.

Classified as Advertising & Marketing bot.

 

[Champagne]

It was bound to happen, so it's not really surprising. I'm not sure where I read it, but someone predicted that within the next two or three years, 90% of internet traffic will be generated by bots.

 

[RiskyStuff]

It was bound to happen, so it's not really surprising. I'm not sure where I read it, but someone predicted that within the next two or three years, 90% of internet traffic will be generated by bots.

Not the type of bots we black hatters love.
We love views bots, CTR bots, vanity metrics bots... anything like that.
We love to sell that to bros who believe these metrics mean something...

I like automation of my tasks bots, but they're not going to score 90% of web traffic.

 

[timstl0]

Is it really only a recent thing? Thought bots would have already outpaced humans with all the scrapers.

 

[Spicy Nug]

Na, Instead of the human internet being completely "dead" or replaced, the reality is that human traffic is still growing, but bot traffic is growing much faster.

Ah yea fair enough.