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The AI Traffic Report: High Volume, Low Visibility, and a Growing Risk

Innovation

Artificial Intelligence

DataDome

Mar 25, 2026

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AI agents are no longer a future concern. They are crawling, indexing, and interacting with websites at a scale that most organizations have not fully registered. Since the beginning of 2026, DataDome’s network has processed nearly 8 billion AI agent requests. The traffic is not slowing down; what is changing is its complexity.

This report draws on DataDome’s network data, culled from 5 trillion signals analyzed daily across 400+ enterprises, to examine the state of AI agent traffic in early 2026: where it is coming from, how much of it can be trusted, and why volume alone is a poor guide to value.

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