Verified Confidence: medium
Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.
Safe rephrasing
Of the verified bot traffic Cloudflare saw in 2025, search engine crawlers accounted for 40% and AI crawlers 20%.
What the source says
Search engine crawlers were responsible for 40% of Verified Bot traffic, with AI crawlers generating half as much (20%).
Cloudflare Radar — Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review
- Commonly cited as
- "AI crawlers now outnumber Googlebot"
- 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
- Share of Cloudflare's 'Verified Bot' traffic only, not all bot traffic
- Interest
- Cloudflare sells network and security services.