Cybersecurity statistics / AI Scraping
| Publisher | Fastly |
| Report | The AI Speed Tax |
| Published | 25 February 2026 |
| Topics | AI Scraping, Infrastructure Costs, Operational Costs |
Published by Fastly in The AI Speed Tax, 25 February 2026. The figure is taken from the report as published; the full methodology is in the source.
12 sources answer what share of organisations have an ai governance policy in place. They report between 18% and 44%, with a median of 36.5%.
See all 12 sources| 43% of organizations have seen infrastructure expenses increase as a direct result of AI activity. Fastly, 27/05/2026 |
| 53% of enterprises report manual remediation as their top cost category for digital risk. Outtake, 06/06/2026 |
| 60% of all origin traffic is from bots. Fastly, 27/05/2026 |
| 47% of requests to cached content come from bots. Fastly, 27/05/2026 |
| In January 2026, bots accounted for 49% of all requests, nearly matching human traffic at 51%. Fastly, 27/05/2026 |
| 57% of AI fetcher requests target non-cached content. Fastly, 27/05/2026 |
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