AI robots already represent more than 10% of web traffic in 2025
If the previous studies on the subject showed that traffic from AI was still very anecdotal, is the trend changing?
According to the latest report Global Bot Security Report 2025 Datadom and publicly accessible, this trend, now structural, redefines the way the web works and raises serious cybersecurity questions …
1.7 billion queries in a month
An overview of the figures for August – Source: Datadom
In 2025, according to the Datadom report, the traffic of indexing robots and IA agents would have quadrupled, so that they now represent more than 10% of queries.
Just for Openai robots, nearly 1.7 billion requests were detected in August. This intensification reflects a switch: AI is no longer an anomalybut a central element of web traffic.
However, as we could expect with projects like Comet, the problem is not limited to volume. Indeed, The new agents imitate human behaviorgenerate navigators on the fly, and even bypass the Captchas.
Unfortunately, their operating mode could make classic cyber -defect systems unusable, so that Companies no longer always know how to distinguish real visitors trafficking that of potential threats.
Always more exposed sites …
Figures worrying for cybersecurity … – Source: Datadome
Despite the awareness of this trend, large companies are struggling to strengthen their protections. The study reveals that Only 2.8% of the sites analyzed are protectedagainst 8.4% last year.
Even large platforms remain vulnerable, and among the sites exceeding 30 million monthly visits, only 2% are properly secure.
The phenomenon particularly affects critical terminals, where 64% of traffic controlled by IA bots reaches forms23% connection pages and 5% payment flows. What multiply the risks of fraud and accounting for accounts …
In France, certain disparities appear according to the sectors. The building is doing well with 23% of completely protected sites, when health and video games display a worrying delay.
A sustainable internet transformation
Pour SAFEVice-president of research at Datadome, the challenge goes beyond cybersecurity alone: “Companies must learn to manage this double issue: to protect themselves from sophisticated threats while exploiting the opportunities offered by traffic generated by AI”.
Today, the observation is clear: Defense strategies must evolve quicklybecause traditional tools are no longer sufficient in the face of agents capable of blurring the border between automation and human interactions. The web, and more generally the Internet, seems to be heading in a new era where AI is both an innovation engine and an unpublished risk source …
