The Internet has a second audience
For most of its history, the Internet had one audience that paid the bills: people.
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Key points
- Bots were always there, but they were mostly large, automated operations that didn't view ads, pay for anything, or read in any meaningful sense.
- At the end of 2024, Cloudflare handled an average of 63 million HTTP requests a second.
- Over the past year, daily requests from AI agents on our network grew by more than 1,700%.
- A second audience arrived alongside it: agents, software acting on behalf of people.
Sources (1)
- [1]The Internet has a second audienceCloudflare Blog: AI · Sep 30, 12:58 PM
For most of its history, the Internet had one audience that paid the bills: people.
Bots were always there, but they were mostly large, automated operations that didn't view ads, pay for anything, or read in any meaningful sense.
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