Googlebot Remains Dominant While AI Crawlers Surge Rapidly in 2025
In 2025, the landscape of web crawling and indexing underwent significant transformations, as revealed by a comprehensive Cloudflare Radar Year in Review. Googlebot maintained its dominant position, generating more web traffic than any other crawler, including AI-based bots developed by companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta. This continued supremacy highlights Google’s ongoing role in shaping the digital ecosystem, both in terms of search indexing and AI training data collection. The Cloudflare report provides unprecedented insight into the dynamics of verified bot traffic, showing that Googlebot accounted for over 25% of all Verified Bot traffic, far exceeding the combined activity … Read more
