Verified Confidence: high
Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.
Safe rephrasing
Cloudflare measured 43% of the requests it handled in 2025 as coming from mobile devices, up from 41% in 2024; page-view-based trackers report a higher mobile share.
What the source says
Aggregating this categorization globally across 2025 found that 43% of requests were from mobile devices, up from 41% in 2024 .
Cloudflare Radar — Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review
- Commonly cited as
- "Mobile is most web traffic"
- True origin
- Cloudflare Radar — Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review
- Type
- Reference fact: A frequently needed number or rule taken directly from a primary source (e.g. Pew, Census, IAB/PwC, FTC), with its as-of date.
- Year
- 2025
- Data as of
- 2025 (year to date, through early December)
- Last checked
- Method & sample
- Traffic observed across Cloudflare's global network (share of requests to sites Cloudflare serves, not of all internet users).
- Drift between quote and source
- Counts HTTP requests (including automated traffic), not page views; StatCounter's page-view share for mobile is higher
- Interest
- Cloudflare sells network and security services.