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> Percentage of HTTP requests classified as bot (automated) or human. Filtered to HTML responses, representing web page traffic.

(Emphasis mine)

I realize that this is likely an inherent limitation, but there is a difference between "bot vs human traffic" and "traffic that CF thinks is bot/human". Every time CF blocks me, I assume it claims I'm a bot in this chart.

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I do sometimes get blocked as a bot. I have no idea how many false positives there are, but there are some and CF does assume there are none in all their numbers (e.g. email saying they block x bots).

Yes, one of my favorite memories of CF is getting blocked and then almost immediately getting an email where they bragged how many bad actors they blocked. Like... do you? Are you sure?

Cloudflare are more likely to be undercounting bots - they don't really pick up many of the modern browser-driven bots and crawlers.

I'm quite happy to believe that it's unreliable in both directions.

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