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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 26% of our bot traffic in the last 7 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
25.5%

3,900 of 15,290 counted bot hits.

Search engines
24.4%

AI bots made 1.05 hits for every search engine hit.

Live AI fetches
218

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

Fake bots
12.8%

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

2 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: 3,318 hits
2 Oct 2026Peak day: 3,318 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 training2,81818.4%
AI search8645.7%
AI user fetch2181.4%
Search engines3,72524.4%
SEO tools3,80624.9%
Social previews2,38315.6%
Archive50.0%
Other bots1,4719.6%

Spoofed hits are excluded from every share on this page. 398 were removed in this period.

Leaderboard

Every bot, ranked

BotTypeHitsPer dayPagesHits / pageVerifiedFakes blocked
FacebookBotMetaSocial previews2,1323055141.8——
AhrefsBotAhrefsSEO tools2,1003001,4781.4100%—
OtherOther bots1,4712105792.5——
BingbotMicrosoftSearch engines1,2471787841.6100%—
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI training1,2231759691.3——
GooglebotGoogleSearch engines1,0651524752.297%5
DotBotMozSEO tools8921278471.1——
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search686984801.449%45
SemrushBotSemrushSEO tools595854851.294%2
ApplebotAppleSearch engines573823061.974%22
ClaudeBotAnthropicAI training560803181.867%30
AmazonbotAmazonAI training551795051.181%24
GPTBotOpenAIAI training428613901.13%39
PetalBotHuaweiSearch engines417603511.2100%—
SogouSogouSearch engines27239733.7——
LinkedInBotLinkedInSocial previews234331515.6——
MJ12botMajesticSEO tools217311771.2——
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIAI search164231041.655%29
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIAI user fetch14821572.642%28
YandexBotYandexSearch engines8412402.1100%—
DuckDuckBotDuckDuckGoSearch engines42694.7100%—
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGoAI user fetch335271.2——
cohere-aiCohereAI training335261.3——
BaiduspiderBaiduSearch engines254191.30%40
BytespiderByteDanceAI training233211.1——
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI user fetch233201.20%30
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicAI search142141.00%40
Claude-UserAnthropicAI user fetch142121.215%28
SlackbotSlackSocial previews7123.5——
Internet ArchiveInternet ArchiveArchive5141.3——
PinterestbotPinterestSocial previews4122.0——
TwitterbotXSocial previews4131.3——
Screaming FrogScreaming FrogSEO tools2021.0——
DiscordbotDiscordSocial previews1011.0——
TelegramBotTelegramSocial previews1011.0——
CCBotCommon CrawlAI training0000.00%36
Bot awards

The standouts of the last 7 days

Most aggressive
FacebookBot
305 hits a day · Meta · Social previews
AIMeta-ExternalAgent · 175 hits a day

Most hits per day

Most polite
DotBot
1.1 hits per page · Moz · SEO tools
AIAmazonbot · 1.1 hits per page

Fewest hits per page: visits once and moves on

Most obsessive
FacebookBot
41.8 hits per page · Meta · Social previews
AIChatGPT-User · 2.6 hits per page

Most hits per page: keeps fetching the same few

Most thorough
AhrefsBot
1,478 pages · Ahrefs · SEO tools
AIMeta-ExternalAgent · 969 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