AI Crawlers Just Made Bots the Majority of Internet Traffic. Your Server Is Not Ready.
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The stat that should worry you Bots now generate 57.5% of HTML traffic on the web. Humans are the minority now. That's not a hot take, that's Cloudflare's own telemetry, and it happened quietly enough that most of us are still writing rate limiters like it's 2019. Here's the thing that makes it wor…
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- 2026-08-31 09:02 · DEV Community — AI
AI Crawlers Just Made Bots the Majority of Internet Traffic. Your Server Is Not Ready.