Comment by ethmarks

2 days ago

Maybe a stupid question but how can Cloudflare detect what portion of traffic is coming from LLM agents? Do agents identify themselves when they make requests? Are you just assuming that all playwright traffic originated from an agent?

That is what Cloudflare's bot metrics dashboard told me before I enabled their "Super Bot Fighter" system that brought traffic back down to its pre-bot levels.

I assume most traffic comes from hosted LLM chats (e.g. chatgpt.com) where the provider (e.g. OpenAI) is making the requests from their own servers.