“In June, AI bots accessed around 39% of the top one million Internet properties using Cloudflare, but only 2.98% of these properties took measures to block or challenge those requests.”
ByteDance’s Bytespider hit 40.4 percent of Cloudflare-protected sites, ahead of OpenAI’s GPTBot at 35.5 and ClaudeBot at 11.2. Cloudflare now blocks them all with one toggle, free tier included. Cloudflare says the value of original content in bulk has never been higher. It just made itself the gate in front of it.