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

38%
Artificial agents (bots) make up 38% of all website visits

LLM Referral vs. Other Traffic

0.09%
0.09% of all human website visits are AI chat & search referrals

LLM Referral Click Rate (CTR)

2.40%
2.40% 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
Developer Helper
Fetcher
Headless Agent
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
Germany
France
United Kingdom
Canada
Singapore
Finland
Australia
Russia
Japan
China
Italy
India
Spain
Netherlands

The countries that operate the most agents.

AI Agents

Time Spent Browsing

1 hour
Average session duration

Pages Browsed

4.7
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
Reference
Computers and Electronics
Travel and Transportation
Pets and Animals
Home and Garden
Beauty and Fitness
Law and Government
Health
Online Communities
Autos and Vehicles
Real Estate
Business and Industrial
News

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

Top Clicked (Referred) Website Categories

Computers and Electronics
Travel and Transportation
Health
Finance
Internet and Telecom
Autos and Vehicles
Business and Industrial
Beauty and Fitness
Jobs and Education
Reference
Home and Garden
Science
News
Pets and Animals
Law and Government

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

Top Referred Countries

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

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 who 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
% Trafic
The percentage of all traffic coming from the agent
M/M Change
The monthly change in traffic percentage
ChatGPT Agent
AI Agent
OpenAI 🇺🇸 US
0%
↓ 5%
0.0141%
↑ 47%
GoogleAgent-Mariner
AI Agent
Google N/A
1%
↓ 5%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
NovaAct
AI Agent
Amazon 🇺🇸 US
2%
↑ 3%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Ai2Bot-DeepResearchEval
AI Assistant
Ai2 🇺🇸 US
0%
↑ 0%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
bigsur.ai
AI Assistant
Big Sur AI N/A
1%
↓ 5%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
ChatGPT-User
AI Assistant
OpenAI 🇬🇧 GB
14%
↓ 4%
2.8515%
↑ 50%
Claude-User
AI Assistant
Anthropic 🇺🇸 US
5%
↓ 0%
0.0013%
↑ 95%
Devin
AI Assistant
Devin AI 🇺🇸 US
2%
↓ 5%
0.0000%
↑ 274%
DuckAssistBot
AI Assistant
DuckDuckGo 🇺🇸 US
6%
↓ 3%
0.0187%
↑ 65%
Gemini-Deep-Research
AI Assistant
Google 🇺🇸 US
2%
↑ 18%
0.0047%
↑ 20%
Google-NotebookLM
AI Assistant
Google 🇺🇸 US
1%
↑ 0%
0.0014%
↑ 0%
LinerBot
AI Assistant
Liner 🇺🇸 US
2%
↑ 32%
0.0001%
↑ 12%
meta-externalfetcher
AI Assistant
Meta 🇺🇸 US
7%
↑ 7%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
MistralAI-User
AI Assistant
Mistral 🇸🇪 SE
5%
↑ 0%
0.0005%
↑ 20%
Perplexity-User
AI Assistant
Perplexity 🇺🇸 US
5%
↓ 3%
0.0109%
↑ 76%
QualifiedBot
AI Assistant
Qualified.com 🇺🇸 US
2%
↓ 5%
0.0000%
↓ 49%
Ai2Bot-Dolma
AI Data Scraper
Ai2 🇺🇸 US
4%
↓ 30%
0.0000%
↑ 508%
Applebot-Extended
AI Data Scraper
Apple 🇺🇸 US
13%
↓ 6%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Bytespider
AI Data Scraper
ByteDance 🇸🇬 SG
15%
↓ 7%
0.2698%
↑ 26%
CCBot
AI Data Scraper
Common Crawl 🇧🇷 BR
21%
↓ 7%
0.0664%
↑ 163%
ChatGLM-Spider
AI Data Scraper
Zhipu AI N/A
2%
↑ 0%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
ClaudeBot
AI Data Scraper
Anthropic 🇺🇸 US
17%
↓ 3%
0.4857%
↑ 19%
CloudVertexBot
AI Data Scraper
Google N/A
0%
↓ 5%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
cohere-training-data-crawler
AI Data Scraper
Cohere N/A
4%
↓ 9%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Cotoyogi
AI Data Scraper
Research Organization of Information and Systems 🇯🇵 JP
2%
↑ 0%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Datenbank Crawler
AI Data Scraper
netEstate N/A
1%
↓ 5%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Diffbot
AI Data Scraper
Diffbot 🇺🇸 US
12%
↓ 3%
0.0002%
↓ 1%
FacebookBot
AI Data Scraper
Meta 🇺🇸 US
12%
↓ 5%
0.0000%
↓ 25%
Google-Extended
AI Data Scraper
Google 🇩🇪 DE
17%
↓ 5%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
GoogleOther
AI Data Scraper
Google 🇺🇸 US
3%
↓ 1%
0.2948%
↓ 13%
GPTBot
AI Data Scraper
OpenAI 🇬🇧 GB
21%
↓ 5%
1.2315%
↑ 13%
ICC-Crawler
AI Data Scraper
NICT 🇯🇵 JP
3%
↓ 2%
0.0000%
↑ 14%
Kangaroo Bot
AI Data Scraper
Kangaroo LLM N/A
3%
↓ 9%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
meta-externalagent
AI Data Scraper
Meta 🇺🇸 US
12%
↓ 7%
2.4130%
↓ 4%
netEstate Imprint Crawler
AI Data Scraper
netEstate N/A
1%
↓ 5%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
omgili
AI Data Scraper
Webz.io 🇮🇱 IL
12%
↓ 6%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
PanguBot
AI Data Scraper
Huawei 🇨🇳 CN
5%
↓ 5%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
Timpibot
AI Data Scraper
Timpi 🇺🇸 US
7%
↓ 5%
0.0448%
↑ 38%
VelenPublicWebCrawler
AI Data Scraper
Hunter 🇧🇪 BE
3%
↑ 26%
0.0239%
↓ 9%
webzio-extended
AI Data Scraper
Webz.io 🇺🇸 US
6%
↓ 7%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
AddSearchBot
AI Search Crawler
Addsearch 🇺🇸 US
1%
↓ 5%
0.0000%
↑ 87%
Amazonbot
AI Search Crawler
Amazon 🇺🇸 US
10%
↓ 2%
1.2546%
↑ 17%
Applebot
AI Search Crawler
Apple 🇺🇸 US
4%
↓ 3%
0.4728%
↑ 2%
Claude-SearchBot
AI Search Crawler
Anthropic 🇺🇸 US
5%
↓ 0%
0.0498%
↓ 44%
meta-webindexer
AI Search Crawler
Meta 🇺🇸 US
1%
↑ 0%
0.0987%
↑ 0%
OAI-SearchBot
AI Search Crawler
OpenAI 🇬🇧 GB
9%
↓ 3%
0.9681%
↑ 29%
PerplexityBot
AI Search Crawler
Perplexity 🇺🇸 US
14%
↓ 3%
0.1404%
↑ 20%
PetalBot
AI Search Crawler
Huawei 🇸🇬 SG
8%
↑ 1%
0.7120%
↑ 18%
YouBot
AI Search Crawler
You.com 🇺🇸 US
8%
↑ 8%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
ZanistaBot
AI Search Crawler
Zanista N/A
1%
↑ 0%
0.0000%
↑ 0%
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