Bot vs. Human
Copy linkBot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests distribution
Bot traffic sources
Copy linkBot traffic describes any non-human Internet traffic, and monitoring bot levels can help spot potential malicious activities
Verified Bots
Copy linkCloudflare maintains a list of "Verified" bots.
Verified bots, such as the ones from search engines, are usually transparent about who they are. Cloudflare manually approves well-behaved services that follow our guidelines.
Latest Bots blog posts
Copy linkPosts tagged with "Bots" from the Cloudflare blog
Rust-powered core systems, post-quantum upgrades, developer access for students, PlanetScale integration, open-source partnerships, and our biggest internship program ever — 1,111 interns in 2026.
Nikita Cano, Korinne Alpers
Today, we are announcing a new approach to catching bots: using models to provide behavioral anomaly detection unique to each bot management customer and stop sophisticated bot attacks.
Jin-Hee Lee, Oliver Payne, Bob AminAzad, Viktor Chynarov, Aleksandar Pavlov Hrusanov, Prajjwal Gupta
By mid-2025, training drives nearly 80% of AI crawling, while referrals to publishers (especially from Google) are falling and crawl-to-refer ratios show AI consumes far more than it sends back.
João Tomé