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

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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 …

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

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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 …