Now, 38.5% of internet traffic is from humans, 61.5% is non-human, like bots, hacking tools, etc

Thekabarnews.com – Anand Mahindra, an Indian businessman, is noted for his biting wit and thought-provoking statements on social media. This time, he talked about something shocking about the digital world that makes people look like a little group on the internet.

Mahindra recently presented a figure. It said that even though billions of people use the internet every day, less than half of all internet traffic comes from people. The number shows a peculiar fact about life today. Machines, not people, move many things over the web.

Nowadays, the internet connects about 63% of the world’s population, or nearly five billion people. Since public access began in the 1990s, the internet world has expanded into a vast digital society. This society influences commerce, communication, and culture.

But Mahindra says that statistics show that only 38.5% of all internet traffic comes from humans. Non-human sources make up the rest, or about 61.5%. For example, search engines utilize bots, data scrapers, cryptocurrency programs, hacking tools, and automated systems designed to mimic human behavior. 

They are small pieces of code that are always moving around on websites, sending requests, gathering information, and starting tasks without stopping. Millions of bots scan websites and look at information. They compete for digital space every second, often quicker than any person could.

Experts in technology suggest that this change shows how much current systems rely on automation. Bots help search engines index content. Moreover, companies use scrapers to monitor their competitors. 

Cybercriminals use automated programs to take advantage of flaws. At the same time, AI is making it tougher to identify the difference between these programs and human people.

This invisible traffic changes what regular internet users view online. It affects the performance of websites, security systems, ad data, and even what shows up on their displays. There is a huge digital ecology functioning quietly in the background behind every simple click.

Mahindra’s comment also has a hint of a warning. If most online activity is no longer done by people, the question becomes how to keep digital spaces safe from machines that spread false information, manipulate people, and pose cyber risks.

But the numbers are also ironic. Humans created the internet and built its infrastructure. They trained machines to use it. However, those machines now control most of its traffic.

The next time someone opens a browser, they will not only share space with billions of other individuals. In addition, they will share it with trillions of digital workers who are working quickly across the web.