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Live data · Updated 28 Oct 2026

AI Crawler IndexWhich AI bots crawl a real website, and how often

AI crawlers made 41% of our bot traffic in the last 30 days. We log every crawler that visits mojodojo.io and sort it into AI training bots, AI search bots, assistants reading a page for a user, and search engines like Google and Bing. Each visit is checked against the IP addresses the bot's owner publishes, so anything pretending to be Googlebot or GPTBot is left out. We started checking IPs on 7 Oct 2026, so earlier visits are sorted by the name the bot gives itself.

AI crawlers
40.9%

46,854 of 114,472 counted bot hits.

Search engines
27.0%

AI bots made 1.52 hits for every search engine hit.

Live AI fetches
2,562

Pages an assistant like ChatGPT read on the spot because someone asked it a question.

Fake bots
7.6%

Of hits claiming to be a bot we can verify, the share that came from the wrong IP.

Trend

Crawler hits per day, fakes removed

29 Sept 2026: 1,415 hits30 Sept 2026: 1,504 hits1 Oct 2026: 2,395 hits2 Oct 2026: 2,128 hits3 Oct 2026: 1,452 hits4 Oct 2026: 2,156 hits5 Oct 2026: 1,830 hits6 Oct 2026: 1,717 hits7 Oct 2026: 2,689 hits8 Oct 2026: 9,633 hits9 Oct 2026: 6,526 hits10 Oct 2026: 6,093 hits11 Oct 2026: 5,428 hits12 Oct 2026: 5,485 hits13 Oct 2026: 3,576 hits14 Oct 2026: 3,663 hits15 Oct 2026: 4,420 hits16 Oct 2026: 4,315 hits17 Oct 2026: 4,704 hits18 Oct 2026: 4,359 hits19 Oct 2026: 3,707 hits20 Oct 2026: 3,743 hits21 Oct 2026: 3,489 hits22 Oct 2026: 5,008 hits23 Oct 2026: 4,387 hits24 Oct 2026: 4,049 hits25 Oct 2026: 4,430 hits26 Oct 2026: 3,604 hits27 Oct 2026: 3,446 hits28 Oct 2026: 3,121 hits
29 Sept 2026Peak day: 9,633 hits28 Oct 2026
  • AI training
  • AI search
  • AI user fetch
  • Search engines
  • SEO tools
  • Social previews
  • Archive
  • Other bots
Split

Who is crawling

CategoryHitsShare
AI training38,27733.4%
AI search6,0155.3%
AI user fetch2,5622.2%
Search engines30,89127.0%
SEO tools20,48717.9%
Social previews7,7436.8%
Archive5730.5%
Other bots7,9246.9%

Spoofed hits are excluded from every share on this page. 1,631 were removed in this period.

Leaderboard

Every bot, ranked

BotTypeHitsPer dayPagesHits / pageVerifiedFakes blocked
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI training30,5061,0172,68011.4——
PetalBotHuaweiSearch engines13,5024503,8783.5100%—
AhrefsBotAhrefsSEO tools11,9643993,3903.5100%—
OtherOther bots7,9242641,6214.9——
GooglebotGoogleSearch engines7,7332582,0803.792%180
facebookexternalhitMetaSocial previews6,51421711755.7——
BingbotMicrosoftSearch engines5,5761862,7732.096%67
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search4,6461551,4353.292%131
DotBotMozSEO tools3,8431283,2781.2——
ClaudeBotAnthropicAI training2,907971,5671.991%95
AmazonbotAmazonAI training2,768921,0002.890%82
SemrushBotSemrushSEO tools2,226741,4621.597%18
ApplebotAppleSearch engines1,939658892.280%120
GPTBotOpenAIAI training1,283431,0101.377%126
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIAI user fetch1,281433513.675%107
MJ12botMajesticSEO tools1,247429021.4——
Screaming FrogScreaming FrogSEO tools1,207401,1601.0——
SogouSogouSearch engines1,147383603.2——
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIAI search1,140386651.777%106
LinkedInBotLinkedInSocial previews1,096372543.8——
Internet ArchiveInternet ArchiveArchive573193821.5——
Claude-UserAnthropicAI user fetch459152022.334%151
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGoAI user fetch354122171.6——
cohere-aiCohereAI training311101931.6——
GoogleOtherGoogleSearch engines310102061.5100%—
BytespiderByteDanceAI training297101881.6——
BaiduspiderBaiduSearch engines289101681.719%100
Meta-ExternalFetcherMetaAI user fetch25991741.5——
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicAI search22981591.40%118
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI user fetch20971451.40%101
YandexBotYandexSearch engines2077912.3100%—
CCBotCommon CrawlAI training20571441.40%129
DuckDuckBotDuckDuckGoSearch engines1886513.7100%—
SlackbotSlackSocial previews502510.0——
TwitterbotXSocial previews32193.6——
PinterestbotPinterestSocial previews23154.6100%—
DiscordbotDiscordSocial previews21154.2——
WhatsAppMetaSocial previews4031.3——
TelegramBotTelegramSocial previews3021.5——
Bot awards

The standouts of the last 30 days

Most aggressive
Meta-ExternalAgent
1,017 hits a day · Meta · AI training

Most hits per day

Most polite
Screaming Frog
1.0 hits per page · Screaming Frog · SEO tools
Top AI bot
GPTBot (OpenAI) · 1.3 hits per page

Fewest hits per page: visits once and moves on

Most obsessive
facebookexternalhit
55.7 hits per page · Meta · Social previews
Top AI bot
Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta) · 11.4 hits per page

Most hits per page: keeps fetching the same few

Most thorough
PetalBot
3,878 pages · Huawei · Search engines
Top AI bot
Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta) · 2,680 pages

Most different pages visited

Rarest visitor
Discordbot
6 days, 21 hits · Discord · Social previews
Top AI bot
CCBot (Common Crawl) · 9 days, 205 hits

Fewest days seen (at least 10 hits)

Most impersonated
Googlebot
180 fake hits · Google · Search engines
Top AI bot
Claude-User (Anthropic) · 151 fake hits

Most fake hits caught by the IP check

A bot needs at least 100 hits in the period to win (10 for rarest visitor). Where an AI bot would win its own category, it is listed underneath.

Methodology

How the numbers are made

Source. Every page request to mojodojo.io whose user agent looks like a crawler, logged at the web server with the visitor's IP. One site, so read the numbers as a case study rather than a census. Tracking since 6 June 2026. IPs were recorded from 7 Oct 2026; hits before that are classified by user agent only and counted as unverified.

Categories. AI training bots collect pages for model training (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot). AI search bots build the index behind AI answers (OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot). AI user fetches are live reads on behalf of a person (ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User).

Verification. A hit counts as verified when its IP sits inside the ranges the operator publishes (OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google, Bing, Apple, Common Crawl, DuckDuckGo, Ahrefs), or passes forward-confirmed reverse DNS. Ranges refresh daily. A hit that fails the check is marked spoofed and left out. Bots whose operator publishes no method are counted as unverifiable.

Cite this. Mojo Dojo, “AI Crawler Index”, mojodojo.io/ai-crawler-index, accessed 28 Oct 2026. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link back.

BotTypeCheck
ChatGPT-UserAI user fetchPublished IP ranges
Claude-UserAI user fetchPublished IP ranges
Perplexity-UserAI user fetchPublished IP ranges
MistralAI-UserAI user fetchNot verifiable
DuckAssistBotAI user fetchNot verifiable
Meta-ExternalFetcherAI user fetchNot verifiable
OAI-SearchBotAI searchPublished IP ranges
Claude-SearchBotAI searchPublished IP ranges
PerplexityBotAI searchPublished IP ranges
GPTBotAI trainingPublished IP ranges
ClaudeBotAI trainingPublished IP ranges
CCBotAI trainingPublished IP ranges
Meta-ExternalAgentAI trainingNot verifiable
FacebookBotAI trainingNot verifiable
BytespiderAI trainingNot verifiable
AmazonbotAI trainingReverse DNS
cohere-aiAI trainingNot verifiable
DiffbotAI trainingNot verifiable
GooglebotSearch enginesIP ranges + reverse DNS
GoogleOtherSearch enginesIP ranges + reverse DNS
BingbotSearch enginesIP ranges + reverse DNS
DuckDuckBotSearch enginesPublished IP ranges
ApplebotSearch enginesIP ranges + reverse DNS
YandexBotSearch enginesReverse DNS
BaiduspiderSearch enginesReverse DNS
PetalBotSearch enginesReverse DNS
SogouSearch enginesNot verifiable
AhrefsBotSEO toolsPublished IP ranges
SemrushBotSEO toolsReverse DNS
MJ12botSEO toolsNot verifiable
DotBotSEO toolsNot verifiable
Screaming FrogSEO toolsNot verifiable
facebookexternalhitSocial previewsNot verifiable
TwitterbotSocial previewsNot verifiable
LinkedInBotSocial previewsNot verifiable
PinterestbotSocial previewsReverse DNS
SlackbotSocial previewsNot verifiable
DiscordbotSocial previewsNot verifiable
TelegramBotSocial previewsNot verifiable
WhatsAppSocial previewsNot verifiable
Internet ArchiveArchiveNot verifiable