43% of Web Requests Come from Mobile, Cloudflare Data Shows

According to Cloudflare's Year in Review, published on 15 December 2025, Global internet traffic increased by 19 percent in 2025, with growth accelerating after August.

Cloudflare's global network spans 330 cities across more than 125 regions and handled an average of over 81 million HTTP requests per second.

Mobile devices accounted for 43 percent of web requests observed by Cloudflare. (This means about 4 in 10 requests came from mobile devices like phones and tablets.)

In 117 countries, more than half of all internet traffic measured by Cloudflare originated from mobile devices.

Analysis of email traffic processed by Cloudflare found that an average of 5.6 percent of messages in 2025 were malicious.

Among top-level domains with sufficient message volume, nearly all email originating from the .christmas and .lol domains was classified as spam or malicious, making them the most abused top-level domains identified in the analysis.

Within the internet services category, ChatGPT by OpenAI ranked highest in terms of popularity among generative AI platforms based on Cloudflare-observed global traffic data.

ChatGPT led AI services; Perplexity, Claude, Copilot climbed, while Gemini, Grok, Windsurf, DeepSeek entered rankings.

Image: Cloudflare Radar

Google referred 89.5 percent of search engine traffic to websites protected and delivered by Cloudflare.

Chrome accounted for roughly two-thirds (66.2 percent to be exact) of browser-generated requests observed by Cloudflare in 2025.

The share of human-generated web traffic using post-quantum encryption increased from 29 percent at the start of 2025 to 52 percent by early December.

Traffic associated with SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service increased by approximately 2.3 times over the course of the year.

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by Ayaz Khan via Digital Information World