5. Humans Make Up for Less Than Half of the Internet’s Traffic
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The Internet is mostly the flow of data across the Internet. Since the Internet is so vast, there is no single point to measure all internet traffic. So that you visualize the vastness of the Internet, the figures and percentages used are exclusive of service provider’s network and private networks. Humans make up only 49 percent of the internet traffic. 51 percent is made up of scrapers (automated processes implemented by bots or web crawlers) and spam mechanisms.