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# Agent requests up 1,700 percent | Am I Ready for Agents?

> Cloudflare: AI agent requests up more than 1,700 percent in a year, 30 Sep 2026. The source and the date it was read are given. Sourced and dated.

Source: https://amireadyforagents.com/news/2026-09-30-cloudflare-ai-agent-requests-up-more-than-1-700-percent-in
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Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# 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.
    
    [Cloudflare: The Internet has a second audience (30 Sep 2026)](https://blog.cloudflare.com/agentic-web/), read 4 Nov 2026
    

## 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.

-   [Questions your CFO will ask](https://amireadyforagents.com/guides/questions-your-cfo-will-ask)
-   [What to measure](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/what-to-measure)

## Sources

1.  [Cloudflare: The Internet has a second audience (30 Sep 2026)](https://blog.cloudflare.com/agentic-web/) (blog.cloudflare.com/agentic-web), read 4 Nov 2026.

Last reviewed 4 November 2026

Reviewed 4 November 2026. [1 source](#sources), each with the day it was read.