Content type distribution and API traffic share on Cloudflare Radar
Radar now includes two new charts on the traffic page ↗ that provide deeper insights into the composition of HTTP traffic: a content type distribution chart and an API traffic share chart.
The new Content type ↗ chart displays the distribution of HTTP response content types, grouped into high-level categories. A traffic type selector allows filtering by human, bot, or all traffic. The existing Bot vs. Human ↗ chart also gained a content type category filter, allowing users to see the bot/human split for specific content categories.
Content type categories:
- HTML — Web pages (
text/html) - Images — All image formats (
image/*) - JSON — JSON data and API responses (
application/json,*+json) - JavaScript — Scripts (
application/javascript,text/javascript) - CSS — Stylesheets (
text/css) - Plain Text — Unformatted text (
text/plain) - Fonts — Web fonts (
font/*,application/font-*) - XML — XML documents and feeds (
text/xml,application/xml,application/rss+xml,application/atom+xml) - YAML — Configuration files (
text/yaml,application/yaml) - Video — Video content and streaming (
video/*,application/ogg,*mpegurl) - Audio — Audio content (
audio/*) - Markdown — Markdown documents (
text/markdown) - Documents — PDFs, Office documents, ePub, CSV (
application/pdf,application/msword,text/csv) - Binary — Executables, archives, WebAssembly (
application/octet-stream,application/zip,application/wasm) - Serialization — Binary API formats (
application/protobuf,application/grpc,application/msgpack) - Other — All other content types
The CONTENT_TYPE dimension and contentType filter are available on the HTTP summary, timeseries groups, and timeseries endpoints.
The new API traffic ↗ chart shows the percentage of dynamic (non-cacheable) HTTP request traffic that is API-related. API traffic is identified by JSON or XML response content types (application/json, application/xml, text/xml) on HTTP requests that returned a 200 status code. A traffic type selector allows switching between human traffic, bot traffic, or all traffic.
The API_TRAFFIC dimension is available on the existing HTTP summary and timeseries groups endpoints. An apiTraffic filter (API or NON_API) can also be applied to HTTP timeseries requests to retrieve raw request counts for API-only or non-API traffic.
Visit the Radar traffic page ↗ to explore these new charts.