Cloudflare: AI agent requests up more than 1,700 percent in a year
In short
Cloudflare: AI agent requests up more than 1,700 percent in a year, on 30 Sep 2026. It is the clearest dated number for the conversation with finance about agent traffic and falling human visits. Ask for a monthly report of AI crawler and agent requests by operator from your CDN logs.
What happened
30 September 2026. Cloudflare reported that daily requests from AI agents grew more than 1,700 percent in a year, that more than half of Internet traffic was not human, and that human traffic fell as much as 40 percent in heavily crawled categories such as Retail and Financial Services.
- 30 Sep 2026
Cloudflare reported that daily requests from AI agents grew more than 1,700 percent in a year, that more than half of Internet traffic was not human, and that human traffic fell as much as 40 percent in heavily crawled categories such as Retail and Financial Services.
Why it matters to a leader
It is the clearest dated number for the conversation with finance about agent traffic and falling human visits.
What to check
Ask for a monthly report of AI crawler and agent requests by operator from your CDN logs.
Sources
- Cloudflare: The Internet has a second audience (30 Sep 2026) (blog.cloudflare.com/agentic-web), read 4 Nov 2026.
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