🌐 Cloudflare Radar 2025: The State of the Internet
Cloudflare published its sixth annual report with the main Internet patterns observed during 2025, from its network in 330 cities across 125+ countries, processing over 81 million HTTP requests per second.
📊 Most relevant findings:
🌐 Traffic
- Global traffic grew 19% in 2025
- Starlink traffic doubled, reaching 20+ new countries
- 52% of human web traffic now uses post-quantum encryption
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
- AI “user-action” crawling increased over 15x
- AI bots represented 4.2% of HTML traffic (Googlebot: 4.5%)
- AI crawlers are the most blocked user agents in
robots.txt
🔒 Security
- 6% of global traffic was mitigated as potentially malicious
- Over 5% of analyzed emails turned out malicious
- Hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks grew significantly
📡 Connectivity
- Nearly half of the 174 Internet outages were government-ordered
💡 Quick explanation
Cloudflare acts as an intermediary for a large portion of Internet traffic. This gives them a privileged view of how information flows globally, what’s legitimate, and what’s malicious. Their annual report is like the “state of the internet” backed by real data.
More information at the link 👇
Also published on LinkedIn.
