Pressr: Cloudflare Reports Q3 2025 Global Internet Trends & Insights

Cloudflare’s Q3 2025 Global Internet Trends Report: A Comprehensive Analysis

Cloudflare, Inc., the leading connectivity cloud company, recently released its Q3 2025 Global Internet Trends & Insights Report, offering a detailed look at global and regional internet activity. The report highlights significant developments in traffic growth, cybersecurity trends, and the evolving threat landscape across key markets.

Global Internet Traffic

The report reveals that Cloudflare handled an average of 6 trillion daily requests globally in Q3 2025. This represents a 38% increase year-over-year and a 3% increase quarter-over-quarter compared to the same period in 2024.

Regional Insights: Middle East

The report focuses on the Middle East, specifically the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia (KSA). In the UAE, internet traffic saw a 5% increase from Q2 to Q3 2025. Meanwhile, KSA experienced a more significant growth of 9% compared to the previous quarter.

The regional trends are also reflected in daily request traffic.

Cloudflare served an average of 47 billion daily content requests to KSA in Q3 2025, with about 1.2 billion (3%) requests being blocked as cyber attacks each day – a 129% increase quarter-over-quarter.

In the UAE, Cloudflare processed an average of 18.2 billion daily content requests. Of these, approximately 832 million (5%) were blocked due to cyber threats, primarily DDoS attacks originating in the UAE, marking a 6% increase from the previous quarter.

Cybersecurity Landscape

While internet traffic is on the rise, so are cybersecurity concerns. Cloudflare’s data shows that it blocked an average of 102 billion cyber threats each day globally in Q3 2025, down by 38% year-over-year and a significant 46% decrease quarter-over-quarter.

Breaking this down further:

• LATAM: Cloudflare blocked an average of 6 billion cyber threats daily, with a 64% year-over-year decrease and 69% quarter-over-quarter decrease.
• EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa): A total of 30 billion cyber threats were mitigated daily, representing a 48% year-over-year decrease and 53% quarter-over-quarter drop.
• North America: The region saw an average of 21 billion cyber threats blocked per day, marking a 37% year-over-year decrease and a 50% quarter-over-quarter reduction in mitigations.
• APJC (Asia-Pacific Japan China): Cloudflare blocked an average of 40.2 billion cyber threats daily, indicating a 21% year-over-year decrease and a 30% quarter-over-quarter drop.

For the first nine months of 2025, Cloudflare averaged about 180 billion threats blocked each day, representing just over a 1% increase year-over-year.

Defenses Against Application Layer Attacks

The report also delves into defenses against application layer attacks. In the Middle East, WAF (Web Application Firewall) rules were widely used, with HTTP Anomaly being the most common mitigation category at 20%, followed by XSS at 11% and Directory Traversal at 9%. DDoS mitigations accounted for about 12% of total cyber threat blocks.

In the UAE, WAF rules proved to be highly effective, with a 90% usage rate.

The most common mitigation categories were HTTP Anomaly (29%), XSS (13%), and SQLi (SQL injection) at 9%. DDoS mitigations made up about 7% of total cyber threat blocks.

Expert Perspective

Bashar Bashaireh, AVP Middle East, Türkiye & North Africa at Cloudflare, commented on the findings: “As the Middle East accelerates toward its vision of a digitally empowered future, the volume and complexity of internet traffic continue to grow at an unprecedented rate. The UAE and Saudi Arabia are not only leading in digital adoption but are also investing significantly in cyber resilience.”

This reinforces the region’s strategic commitment to building a secure, high-performance digital ecosystem that supports innovation, business continuity, and national transformation goals.