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4.2%

4.5%Googlebot alone

AI bots as a share of HTML requests

How much of web traffic is AI crawlers?

AI bots averaged 4.2% of HTML requests across 2025, ranging from 2.4% to 6.4%. Googlebot alone accounted for 4.5%.

Value2025 · Global

  • 4.2%

    AI bots as a share of HTML requests

    2025 · Global

  • 4.5%

    Googlebot alone

    For comparison

Cloudflare

Useful for scale, and useful against panic. AI crawlers in aggregate were a slightly smaller share of HTML requests last year than Google's own search crawler by itself. The year-on-year direction matters more than the level, and the level is not yet what the louder coverage suggests.

Source

CloudflarePlatform data
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Reference period
Geography
Global
Evidence type
Platform telemetry
Sample
HTML content requests across Cloudflare's customer base, 1 January to 2 December 2025. Ranged from 2.4% to 6.4% through the year
For comparison
Googlebot alone: 4.5%
Last checked

Method

Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review, published 15 December 2025, covering 1 January to 2 December 2025. Population is Cloudflare's own customer base, HTML content requests only, which Cloudflare states explicitly because the shares differ from its all-content figures. Cloudflare sells bot blocking, so it has an interest in the salience of this measure.

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