Global AI & Bot Traffic

Insights into the hidden ecosystem of AI agents, crawlers, scrapers, and other bots swarming across the web, as well as traffic driven from AI chat and search LLMs. This anonymized data comes from thousands of websites leveraging Dark Visitors.

Overview

Bot vs. Human Traffic

37%
Artificial agents (bots) make up 37% of all website visits

LLM Referral vs. Other Traffic

0.11%
0.11% of all human website visits are AI chat & search referrals

LLM Referral Click Rate (CTR)

2.69%
2.69% of all AI chat & search mention links were actually clicked
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Crawlers & Scrapers

Traffic by Agent Type

AI Agent
AI Assistant
AI Data Scraper
AI Search Crawler
Archiver
Automated Agent
Developer Helper
Fetcher
Intelligence Gatherer
Scraper
Search Engine Crawler
Security Scanner
SEO Crawler
Uncategorized
Undocumented AI Agent

The overall volume of internet traffic coming from each agent type.

Top Originating Countries

United States
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Singapore
Canada
Finland
China
Russia
Australia
Japan
India
Italy
South Korea
Ireland

The countries that operate the most agents.

AI Agents

Time Spent Browsing

31 minutes
Average session duration

Pages Browsed

6.5
Average visits per session

Sessions from autonomous AI agents who intelligently navigate and interact with websites.

AI Chat & Search LLMs

Traffic by LLM Referrer

ChatGPT
Claude
Copilot
DeepSeek
Gemini
Meta AI
Mistral
Perplexity

The overall volume of internet traffic coming from each LLM referrer.

Top Mentioned Website Categories

Finance
Internet and Telecom
Real Estate
Computers and Electronics
Beauty and Fitness
Reference
Pets and Animals
Law and Government
Travel and Transportation
Business and Industrial
Health
People and Society
News
Autos and Vehicles
Food and Drink

The types of websites most frequently mentioned by LLMs in their responses.

Top Clicked (Referred) Website Categories

Computers and Electronics
Health
Travel and Transportation
Internet and Telecom
Finance
Beauty and Fitness
Business and Industrial
Science
Jobs and Education
Real Estate
Reference
Hobbies and Leisure
Autos and Vehicles
People and Society
Food and Drink

The types of websites in LLM responses most frequently clicked on by users.

Top Referred Countries

United States
Malaysia
India
Canada
United Kingdom
Australia
Germany
France
Brazil
South Korea
Philippines
Spain
South Africa
Japan
Singapore

The countries where humans are most frequently referred to websites by LLMs.

Top Website Robots.txts

Blocked AI Data Scrapers Over Time

How many of the world's top 1000 websites are blocking various AI data scrapers in their robots.txt.

Breakdown by Agent

All AI-Related Agents

Agent
The name of the agent
Type
The category of the agent
Company
The company that operates the agent
Country
The country where visits normally originate
% Blocked
The percentage of top websites that block the agent
M/M Change
The monthly change in blocked percentage
% Traffic
The percentage of all traffic coming from the agent
M/M Change
The monthly change in traffic percentage
AmazonBuyForMe
AI Agent
Amazon N/A
0%
↑ 0%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
ChatGPT Agent
AI Agent
OpenAI 🇺🇸 US
0%
↑ 51%
0.0073%
↓ 40%
GoogleAgent-Mariner
AI Agent
Google N/A
2%
↑ 21%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Manus-User
AI Agent
Butterfly Effect 🇺🇸 US
0%
↑ 0%
0.0004%
↑ 0%
NovaAct
AI Agent
Amazon 🇺🇸 US
2%
↑ 9%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
TwinAgent
AI Agent
Twin N/A
0%
↑ 0%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
AI Assistant
Ai2 🇺🇸 US
1%
↑ 34%
0.0000%
↑ 62%
bigsur.ai
AI Assistant
Big Sur AI N/A
1%
↑ 1%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
ChatGPT-User
AI Assistant
OpenAI 🇺🇸 US
15%
↑ 2%
1.9909%
↓ 28%
Claude-User
AI Assistant
Anthropic 🇺🇸 US
6%
↑ 14%
0.0013%
↑ 5%
Devin
AI Assistant
Devin 🇺🇸 US
2%
↑ 13%
0.0000%
↑ 57%
DuckAssistBot
AI Assistant
DuckDuckGo 🇺🇸 US
7%
↑ 16%
0.0233%
↑ 13%
Gemini-Deep-Research
AI Assistant
Google 🇺🇸 US
2%
↑ 14%
0.0011%
↓ 68%
Google-NotebookLM
AI Assistant
Google 🇺🇸 US
1%
↑ 13%
0.0043%
↑ 67%
KlaviyoAIBot
AI Assistant
Klaviyo N/A
1%
↑ 0%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
LinerBot
AI Assistant
Liner 🇺🇸 US
2%
↑ 1%
0.0001%
↑ 68%
meta-externalfetcher
AI Assistant
Meta 🇺🇸 US
7%
↑ 8%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
MistralAI-User
AI Assistant
Mistral 🇸🇪 SE
5%
↑ 9%
0.0004%
↑ 8%
Perplexity-User
AI Assistant
Perplexity 🇺🇸 US
7%
↑ 11%
0.0125%
↑ 14%
Poggio-Citations
AI Assistant
Poggio 🇺🇸 US
0%
↑ 0%
0.0003%
↑ 0%
QualifiedBot
AI Assistant
Qualified 🇺🇸 US
2%
↑ 1%
0.0001%
↓ 98%
Ai2Bot-Dolma
AI Data Scraper
Ai2 🇺🇸 US
4%
↑ 4%
0.0000%
↓ 99%
Applebot-Extended
AI Data Scraper
Apple 🇺🇸 US
14%
↑ 6%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Bytespider
AI Data Scraper
ByteDance 🇸🇬 SG
16%
↑ 2%
0.1819%
↓ 27%
CCBot
AI Data Scraper
Common Crawl 🇺🇸 US
22%
↑ 4%
0.0287%
↓ 51%
ChatGLM-Spider
AI Data Scraper
Zhipu AI N/A
2%
↑ 1%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
ClaudeBot
AI Data Scraper
Anthropic 🇺🇸 US
19%
↑ 6%
0.3128%
↓ 18%
CloudVertexBot
AI Data Scraper
Google N/A
0%
↑ 1%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
cohere-training-data-crawler
AI Data Scraper
Cohere N/A
4%
↑ 8%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Cotoyogi
AI Data Scraper
Research Organization of Information and Systems 🇯🇵 JP
2%
↑ 6%
0.0006%
↓ 8%
Datenbank Crawler
AI Data Scraper
netEstate N/A
1%
↑ 11%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Diffbot
AI Data Scraper
Diffbot 🇺🇸 US
12%
↑ 5%
0.0004%
↑ 62%
FacebookBot
AI Data Scraper
Meta 🇩🇪 DE
12%
↑ 3%
0.0000%
↑ 43%
Google-Extended
AI Data Scraper
Google 🇺🇸 US
18%
↑ 3%
0.0000%
↑ 213%
GoogleOther
AI Data Scraper
Google 🇺🇸 US
3%
↑ 5%
0.1508%
↓ 38%
GPTBot
AI Data Scraper
OpenAI 🇺🇸 US
22%
↑ 3%
0.3447%
↓ 58%
ICC-Crawler
AI Data Scraper
NICT 🇯🇵 JP
4%
↑ 9%
0.0000%
↑ 108%
imageSpider
AI Data Scraper
ByteDance N/A
0%
↑ 0%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Kangaroo Bot
AI Data Scraper
Kangaroo LLM N/A
3%
↑ 5%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
laion-huggingface-processor
AI Data Scraper
LAION N/A
0%
↑ 0%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
LCC
AI Data Scraper
University of Leipzig 🇩🇪 DE
0%
↑ 0%
0.0008%
↑ 0%
meta-externalagent
AI Data Scraper
Meta 🇺🇸 US
13%
↑ 6%
1.4033%
↓ 38%
netEstate Imprint Crawler
AI Data Scraper
netEstate N/A
2%
↑ 10%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
omgili
AI Data Scraper
Webz.io 🇮🇱 IL
13%
↑ 3%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
PanguBot
AI Data Scraper
Huawei 🇨🇳 CN
5%
↑ 3%
0.0000%
↓ 61%
SBIntuitionsBot
AI Data Scraper
SB Intuitions 🇯🇵 JP
1%
↑ 0%
0.0002%
↑ 0%
Spider
AI Data Scraper
Spider N/A
0%
↑ 0%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Timpibot
AI Data Scraper
Timpi 🇺🇸 US
9%
↑ 18%
0.0203%
↑ 570%
VelenPublicWebCrawler
AI Data Scraper
Velen 🇧🇪 BE
4%
↑ 9%
0.0145%
↓ 25%
webzio-extended
AI Data Scraper
Webz.io 🇺🇸 US
6%
↑ 3%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
AddSearchBot
AI Search Crawler
AddSearch 🇺🇸 US
1%
↑ 1%
0.0001%
↑ 7,265%
Amazonbot
AI Search Crawler
Amazon 🇺🇸 US
11%
↑ 4%
1.1039%
↑ 6%
Anomura
AI Search Crawler
Direqt N/A
0%
↑ 0%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Applebot
AI Search Crawler
Apple 🇺🇸 US
6%
↑ 20%
0.9991%
↑ 107%
atlassian-bot
AI Search Crawler
Atlassian 🇺🇸 US
1%
↑ 0%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Bravebot
AI Search Crawler
Brave 🇺🇸 US
1%
↑ 41%
0.0012%
↑ 31%
Channel3Bot
AI Search Crawler
Channel3 N/A
0%
↑ 0%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Claude-SearchBot
AI Search Crawler
Anthropic 🇺🇸 US
7%
↑ 11%
0.5081%
↓ 47%
Cloudflare-AutoRAG
AI Search Crawler
Cloudflare 🇫🇷 FR
0%
↑ 0%
0.0002%
↑ 0%
Google-CloudVertexBot
AI Search Crawler
Google 🇺🇸 US
5%
↑ 9%
0.0004%
↓ 45%
LinkupBot
AI Search Crawler
Linkup 🇫🇷 FR
0%
↑ 0%
0.0281%
↑ 0%
meta-webindexer
AI Search Crawler
Meta 🇺🇸 US
2%
↑ 31%
1.0022%
↑ 163%
OAI-SearchBot
AI Search Crawler
OpenAI 🇺🇸 US
11%
↑ 11%
0.5377%
↓ 43%
PerplexityBot
AI Search Crawler
Perplexity 🇺🇸 US
16%
↑ 8%
0.1143%
↓ 11%
PetalBot
AI Search Crawler
Huawei 🇸🇬 SG
8%
↑ 4%
0.5714%
↓ 20%
YouBot
AI Search Crawler
You.com 🇺🇸 US
9%
↑ 4%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
ZanistaBot
AI Search Crawler
Zanista 🇺🇸 US
1%
↑ 1%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
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