2025 Internet Trends Decoded: The 19% Surge, AI’s Dominance, and Quantum-Proof Encryption

2025 Internet Trends Review: The Rise of AI, Post-Quantum Encryption, and Record-Breaking DDoS Attacks Abstract 2025 witnessed pivotal shifts in the global internet landscape: 19% growth in global traffic, a surge in AI crawler activity, doubled traffic for Starlink (expanding to over 20 new countries), 52% of human-generated traffic using post-quantum encryption, and significant expansion in hyper-volumetric DDoS attack sizes—all shaping the year’s digital trajectory. In 2025, Cloudflare released its sixth annual Internet Trends Review, leveraging data from its global network spanning 330 cities across 125+ countries/regions. The network processes an average of 81 million HTTP requests per second (peaking …