Cloudflare 2025 Report: 19% Internet Traffic Growth & AI Crawler Reshaping Revealed

Snippet | Executive Summary (50–80 words) Cloudflare Radar’s 2025 data shows that global Internet traffic grew by 19% year over year, AI crawler traffic continued to rise, IPv6, HTTP/3, and post-quantum encryption accelerated into real-world adoption, and 6.2% of global traffic was actively mitigated for security reasons. The Internet is rapidly evolving toward greater automation, stronger security, and mobile-first usage. 1. Why Cloudflare Radar’s Annual Data Matters Looking at data from a single website, platform, or region often leads to incomplete conclusions. The value of Cloudflare Radar lies in its scope: it is based on real request traffic observed across …