From Ranking to Recommended: Get Your Site Ready to Thrive in the Age of AI Agents
Cloudflare, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Cloudflare launches Agent Readiness and Answer Engine Optimization as more than half of requests now come from machines.
Cloudflare reports that more than half of web requests now come from machines rather than people.
In response the company introduced Agent Readiness, which measures how well agents can discover and read a site.
It also introduced Answer Engine Optimization, which tracks how often AI assistants recommend a given site in their answers. Together the tools reframe web visibility around being recommended by AI systems rather than ranking in traditional search.