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State of agent traffic
November 2026.
A dated, sourced snapshot of the agent web: the human/agent/bot split, the AI agents and bots behind it, and the x402 agent-payments economy. Built 2026-11-01; source data as of 2026-11-01.
What the data says
Cloudflare Radar classifies 38.9% of HTTP requests as automated, with AI crawlers at 17.2% of bot requests. The top AI agents and named bots below are shares of their respective request pools, not of all traffic.
The x402 economy cleared $663,730 organic in the last 30d — 43% of the $1,551,544 on-chain, unfiltered. The Coinbase CDP Bazaar listed 45,033 x402-payable services with 804,343 recorded calls.
Top AI agents
| Agent | Share of AI-agent requests |
|---|---|
| Googlebot | 24.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 12.3% |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | 9.4% |
| Applebot | 8.7% |
| Bingbot | 7.6% |
| GPTBot | 5.5% |
| ShapBot | 5.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.7% |
| Amazonbot | 4.5% |
Top named bots
| Bot | Share of bot requests |
|---|---|
| GoogleBot | 12.1% |
| ChatGPT agent | 7.6% |
| Claude | 5.0% |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | 4.6% |
| Baiduspider | 4.3% |
| FacebookExternalHit | 4.3% |
| Applebot | 4.2% |
| BingBot | 3.6% |
| Meta-WebIndexer | 3.4% |
Method and sources
Aggregate data only, from Cloudflare Radar (CC BY-NC 4.0), x402stats (CC BY 4.0), and the Coinbase CDP Bazaar discovery API. These are samples and published figures, not a census and not proof about any single request. Read the method.
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About this report.
How often is the report updated?
The page is rebuilt with the daily Atlas snapshot, and the headline month changes as the calendar does. The built date and the source data date are shown at the top.
Is this Volance customer data?
No. It is third-party aggregate data from Cloudflare Radar, x402stats, and the Coinbase CDP Bazaar, cited on the method page.
Can I cite these figures?
Yes, with the source and date. Each figure names its source and window on this page and on the method page; the raw snapshot is at /atlas/snapshot.json.
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