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Live data · Updated 8 Oct 2026

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

AI crawlers made 23% 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
23.3%

12,703 of 54,463 counted bot hits.

Search engines
26.1%

AI bots made 0.89 hits for every search engine hit.

Live AI fetches
999

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

Fake bots
13.0%

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

9 Sept 2026: 1,692 hits10 Sept 2026: 2,687 hits11 Sept 2026: 1,961 hits12 Sept 2026: 1,865 hits13 Sept 2026: 1,799 hits14 Sept 2026: 1,478 hits15 Sept 2026: 2,404 hits16 Sept 2026: 1,593 hits17 Sept 2026: 1,290 hits18 Sept 2026: 1,638 hits19 Sept 2026: 2,168 hits20 Sept 2026: 1,695 hits21 Sept 2026: 1,378 hits22 Sept 2026: 1,021 hits23 Sept 2026: 2,137 hits24 Sept 2026: 1,293 hits25 Sept 2026: 1,603 hits26 Sept 2026: 1,594 hits27 Sept 2026: 1,334 hits28 Sept 2026: 1,417 hits29 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: 3,130 hits
9 Sept 2026Peak day: 3,130 hits8 Oct 2026
  • AI training
  • AI search
  • AI user fetch
  • Search engines
  • SEO tools
  • Social previews
  • Archive
  • Other bots
Split

Who is crawling

CategoryHitsShare
AI training8,86516.3%
AI search2,8395.2%
AI user fetch9991.8%
Search engines14,20326.1%
SEO tools13,05624.0%
Social previews12,50423.0%
Archive4970.9%
Other bots1,5002.8%

Spoofed hits are excluded from every share on this page. 397 were removed in this period.

Leaderboard

Every bot, ranked

BotTypeHitsPer dayPagesHits / pageVerifiedFakes blocked
FacebookBotMetaSocial previews10,15733917458.4——
AhrefsBotAhrefsSEO tools8,4282813,0132.8100%—
BingbotMicrosoftSearch engines5,7501922,5892.2100%—
GooglebotGoogleSearch engines4,8821631,2933.897%5
ClaudeBotAnthropicAI training3,3561121,6302.167%30
AmazonbotAmazonAI training2,894971,1362.581%24
LinkedInBotLinkedInSocial previews2,215748924.9——
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search2,117719932.147%45
SemrushBotSemrushSEO tools2,068691,2771.694%2
ApplebotAppleSearch engines1,507507142.174%22
OtherOther bots1,500506332.4——
GPTBotOpenAIAI training1,374461,1611.23%39
DotBotMozSEO tools1,343451,1901.1——
MJ12botMajesticSEO tools1,204406961.7——
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI training1,185409451.3——
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIAI user fetch918312713.442%28
SogouSogouSearch engines809271375.9——
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIAI search701234041.753%29
YandexBotYandexSearch engines569192322.5100%—
Internet ArchiveInternet ArchiveArchive497173231.5——
PetalBotHuaweiSearch engines384133291.2100%—
DuckDuckBotDuckDuckGoSearch engines1947238.4100%—
BaiduspiderBaiduSearch engines1084621.70%40
TwitterbotXSocial previews1033691.5——
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGoAI user fetch331271.2——
cohere-aiCohereAI training331261.3——
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI user fetch301261.20%30
BytespiderByteDanceAI training231211.1——
PinterestbotPinterestSocial previews221211.0——
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicAI search211191.10%40
Claude-UserAnthropicAI user fetch181151.216%27
Screaming FrogScreaming FrogSEO tools13043.3——
SlackbotSlackSocial previews6023.0——
DiscordbotDiscordSocial previews1011.0——
CCBotCommon CrawlAI training0000.00%36
Bot awards

The standouts of the last 30 days

Most aggressive
FacebookBot
339 hits a day · Meta · Social previews
AIClaudeBot · 112 hits a day

Most hits per day

Most polite
DotBot
1.1 hits per page · Moz · SEO tools
AIGPTBot · 1.2 hits per page

Fewest hits per page: visits once and moves on

Most obsessive
FacebookBot
58.4 hits per page · Meta · Social previews
AIChatGPT-User · 3.4 hits per page

Most hits per page: keeps fetching the same few

Most thorough
AhrefsBot
3,013 pages · Ahrefs · SEO tools
AIClaudeBot · 1,630 pages

Most different pages visited

Rarest visitor
Bytespider
1 day, 23 hits · ByteDance · AI training

Fewest days seen (at least 10 hits)

Most impersonated
PerplexityBot
45 fake hits · Perplexity · AI search

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 8 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
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
FacebookBotSocial 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