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AI Crawler Statistics in 2026: What AI Crawlers Actually Want?
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AI Crawler Statistics in 2026: What AI Crawlers Actually Want?

Live Cloudflare Radar data: training is what AI crawlers hunt most, and its share of AI crawl jumped from 29% to 45% year over year. Shopping sites get crawled hardest. What AI bots want from your site, verified.

David ThomsonDavid Thomson
Bot Traffic Statistics 2026: How Much of the Web Is Bots?
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Bot Traffic Statistics 2026: How Much of the Web Is Bots?

Live Cloudflare Radar data: bots are 35% of web traffic and Anthropic now out-crawls OpenAI and Meta. Year-over-year, crawler block rates jumped from 10% to 36% since 2025. Verified bot statistics.

David ThomsonDavid Thomson
Certificate Authority Market Share 2026: Top SSL CAs Ranked
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Certificate Authority Market Share 2026: Top SSL CAs Ranked

Certificate authority market share in 2026: Let's Encrypt still issues 57% of web certificates, and Amazon Trust Services is the fastest riser, up five-fold in a year to challenge Sectigo for third. Year-over-year CT-log data.

Emma DaviesEmma Davies
Gen Z UK Social Media Statistics 2026: TikTok, SHEIN & AI Trends
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Gen Z UK Social Media Statistics 2026: TikTok, SHEIN & AI Trends

70+ Gen Z UK social stats (TikTok 120 min/day, SHEIN displaces ASOS) plus a Cloudflare Radar year-over-year: UK mobile-OS share fell back under 50% by the Q2 2026 close, and AI answer-engine crawlers tripled to ~33% of UK AI-bot traffic.

Elif ArslanElif Arslan
DNSSEC Adoption in 2026: Only 0.47% of DNS Queries Are Actually Protected (July 2026 Update)
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DNSSEC Adoption in 2026: Only 0.47% of DNS Queries Are Actually Protected (July 2026 Update)

Cloudflare Radar data shows ~8% of DNS queries reach DNSSEC-signed domains, but end-to-end validation is still under 1%. Refreshed for the Q2 2026 close: validation nearly doubled year-over-year (0.33% to 0.60%), posted a sixth straight monthly gain, and the signing-to-validation gap closed from 23.6× to 13.6×, while encrypted DNS crossed 12% of queries and DoH began overtaking DoT.

Emma DaviesEmma Davies
Ecommerce marketplace market share in Q2 2026: eBay overtook Temu, Shopee seized the low-cost #1, and every category leader held rank 1 for a full year (July 2026 Update)
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Ecommerce marketplace market share in Q2 2026: eBay overtook Temu, Shopee seized the low-cost #1, and every category leader held rank 1 for a full year (July 2026 Update)

We tracked global ecommerce marketplace rankings on Cloudflare Radar through the June 30, 2026 quarter close and added a full year-over-year layer against Q2 2025. Amazon, Shopee, and Shein each held rank 1 in their category for the whole year. Underneath, eBay climbed #5 to #3 in General while Temu slipped, Shopee took the Low-Cost #1 from Temu, Fast Fashion's entire top 3 (Shein, H&M, Trendyol) was frozen year over year, and Walmart clawed back into the top 10 by the close. With Turkey, Mexico, and India breakdowns.

Mehmet SuleymanMehmet Suleyman
Web Traffic Statistics Q2 2026: We Analyzed Billions of Requests - Here Are the 15 Numbers That Matter (July 2026 Update)
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Web Traffic Statistics Q2 2026: We Analyzed Billions of Requests - Here Are the 15 Numbers That Matter (July 2026 Update)

Our Q2 2026 refresh of Cloudflare Radar web traffic data, with year-over-year comparisons to Q2 2025. 33.2% of all HTTP requests are now bots, up from 30.4% a year ago. ECDSA certificates crossed RSA (50.3% of new certs, nearly double last year's 26.5%), Googlebot's share of AI-bot traffic more than halved as ClaudeBot rose to #2, UDP now drives 82.6% of network-layer attacks, and compromised-credential logins fell to 57.4%. All-traffic shows desktop leading, but human-only traffic is still mobile-majority. Here are the numbers that matter.

David ThomsonDavid Thomson
DMARC adoption statistics 2026: 89% of emails pass DMARC but 14.5% still fail SPF (July 2026 Update)
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DMARC adoption statistics 2026: 89% of emails pass DMARC but 14.5% still fail SPF (July 2026 Update)

DMARC adoption analysis from Cloudflare Radar, refreshed for the Q2 2026 close with full-quarter data and the first year-over-year layer. Adoption kept improving (DMARC 'NONE' fell to 5.70%), but inbound spoof attempts doubled to 24.3% and malicious mail tripled to 18.7% while bulk spam fell, as attackers shifted from volume to targeted impersonation. Encryption in transit slipped to 88.2% and deprecated TLS climbed to 51.1%. Full Q2 scorecard, the year's most-abused sending TLDs, and what a full year changed.

David ThomsonDavid Thomson
We analyzed HTTP protocol adoption in 2026: 27.8% of the web still runs HTTP/1.x (July 2026 Update)
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We analyzed HTTP protocol adoption in 2026: 27.8% of the web still runs HTTP/1.x (July 2026 Update)

At the Q2 2026 close HTTP/1.x holds 27.8%, HTTP/2 leads at 51.2%, and HTTP/3's plateau is now a full year old (20.5% to 21.0% year over year). Our Cloudflare Radar refresh adds the year-over-year picture: post-quantum crypto crossed the majority of requests (28.9% to 54.2%) while barely reaching origins (9.6%), the Russia anomaly reverted exactly as predicted, and the Netherlands overtook Singapore as the HTTP/1.x leader.

David ThomsonDavid Thomson
AI Adoption Trends in Q2 2026: We Analyzed 4 Internet Layers of Cloudflare Radar Data to Map How AI Hype Becomes Real Adoption (July 2026 Update)
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AI Adoption Trends in Q2 2026: We Analyzed 4 Internet Layers of Cloudflare Radar Data to Map How AI Hype Becomes Real Adoption (July 2026 Update)

Original research mapping AI adoption across 4 internet layers with Cloudflare Radar, refreshed for the Q2 2026 close with year-over-year data: Training crawls overtook 'mixed purpose' as the #1 declared crawl reason, ClaudeBot passed GPTBot for the #2 crawler spot, Googlebot's share of AI-bot traffic halved, and more than 1 in 3 crawler requests now returns a 4xx as sites push back.

Emma DaviesEmma Davies
Cloud Provider Traffic Share in 2026: AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure's Share of Internet Traffic (July 2026 Update)
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Cloud Provider Traffic Share in 2026: AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure's Share of Internet Traffic (July 2026 Update)

How much internet traffic do AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure carry, and how fast are their networks? Cloudflare Radar NetFlows put the Big Three near 7.85% of global traffic. Refreshed for the Q2 2026 close with the first year-over-year layer on cloud connection quality and region concentration: AWS improved most (fastest path and first byte), Oracle's us-ashburn-1 crossed 50% of its traffic, and Azure's sovereignty regions in Brazil, Poland, and India finally activated.

Emma DaviesEmma Davies
Most Popular Platforms & Technologies by Category in Q2 2026: 15 of 16 Category Leaders Held #1 for a Full Year, the AI Top Five Turned Over, and Shopee Seized the Low-Cost Crown (July 2026 Update)
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Most Popular Platforms & Technologies by Category in Q2 2026: 15 of 16 Category Leaders Held #1 for a Full Year, the AI Top Five Turned Over, and Shopee Seized the Low-Cost Crown (July 2026 Update)

Cloudflare Radar DNS rankings at the Q2 2026 close (June 30), now with a year-over-year layer: 15 of 16 category #1s are unchanged since June 2025, only Low-Cost E-commerce changed hands (Temu to Shopee), Generative AI's entire top five turned over below ChatGPT (Character.AI fell from #2 to #9), and Discord climbed from unranked to #2 in gaming.

Emma DaviesEmma Davies
We Analyzed 8.7B SSL Certificates: ECDSA Overtook RSA in May 2026 (July 2026 Update)
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We Analyzed 8.7B SSL Certificates: ECDSA Overtook RSA in May 2026 (July 2026 Update)

We process ~80% of global CT logs. ECDSA overtook RSA in May 2026 and held the majority across the full Q2 (50.3%, up from 26.5% a year earlier). The Q2 2026 close with year-over-year shifts: the 200-day certificate cliff (10.8% to 0.10%), Amazon's CA surge, IP-address certificates, and what certificates reveal about backend tech stacks.

David ThomsonDavid Thomson
How to Find Companies Using n8n in 2026: Full Guide + Best Detection Tools
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How to Find Companies Using n8n in 2026: Full Guide + Best Detection Tools

Discover how to find companies using n8n workflow automation in 2026. Learn the best tools for backend detection, including TechnologyChecker.io's real-time alerts and historical data – outperforming basic scanners for accurate n8n user lists and leads.

Elif ArslanElif Arslan
The Technology Lookup Software Industry: 2025–2026 Statistics & Insights (from my know-how)
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The Technology Lookup Software Industry: 2025–2026 Statistics & Insights (from my know-how)

The latest 2025–2026 insights, statistics, and trends in the technology lookup software industry from BuiltWith and Wappalyzer to SimilarTech and Technologychecker.io. Includes March 2026 web technology market share data, detection methods deep-dive, and how technographics drive smarter B2B sales, marketing, and growth strategies.

Mehmet SuleymanMehmet Suleyman