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AI Crawler Index

AI crawlers accounted for 23% of the 54,367 counted bot hits on mojodojo.io over the last 30 days, with 12,666 hits split across AI training (8,841, 16.3%), AI search (2,829, 5.2%) and AI user fetch (996, 1.8%), according to the site's AI Crawler Index. AI bots logged 0.89 hits for every search engine hit, and 397 spoofed hits were removed from the period after IP verification began on 7 Oct 2026. ClaudeBot (3,356 hits, 67% verified) and Amazonbot (2,892 hits, 80% verified) led AI training traffic, while GPTBot showed 1,374 hits at just 3% verified and PerplexityBot 2,117 hits at 47% verified.

read8 min views1 publishedOct 8, 2026

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.

12,666 of 54,367 counted bot hits.

AI bots made 0.89 hits for every search engine hit.

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

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

Crawler hits per day, fakes removed #

Who is crawling #

Category Hits Share
AI training 8,841 16.3%
AI search 2,829 5.2%
AI user fetch 996 1.8%
Search engines 14,192 26.1%
SEO tools 13,052 24.0%
Social previews 12,493 23.0%
Archive 497 0.9%
Other bots 1,467 2.7%

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

Every bot, ranked #

Bot Type Hits Per day Pages Hits / page Verified Fakes blocked
FacebookBotMeta Social previews 10,146 338 174 58.3 β€” β€”
AhrefsBotAhrefs SEO tools 8,427 281 3,013 2.8 100% β€”
BingbotMicrosoft Search engines 5,750 192 2,589 2.2 100% β€”
GooglebotGoogle Search engines 4,881 163 1,292 3.8 97% 5
ClaudeBotAnthropic AI training 3,356 112 1,630 2.1 67% 30
AmazonbotAmazon AI training 2,892 96 1,136 2.5 80% 24
LinkedInBotLinkedIn Social previews 2,215 74 89 24.9 β€” β€”
PerplexityBotPerplexity AI search 2,117 71 993 2.1 47% 45
SemrushBotSemrush SEO tools 2,068 69 1,277 1.6 94% 2
ApplebotApple Search engines 1,505 50 714 2.1 73% 22
Other Other bots 1,467 49 633 2.3 β€” β€”
GPTBotOpenAI AI training 1,374 46 1,161 1.2 3% 39
DotBotMoz SEO tools 1,340 45 1,188 1.1 β€” β€”
MJ12botMajestic SEO tools 1,204 40 696 1.7 β€” β€”
Meta-ExternalAgentMeta AI training 1,163 39 926 1.3 β€” β€”
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI AI user fetch 915 31 270 3.4 38% 28
SogouSogou Search engines 809 27 137 5.9 β€” β€”
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI AI search 691 23 399 1.7 44% 29
YandexBotYandex Search engines 566 19 232 2.4 100% β€”
Internet ArchiveInternet Archive Archive 497 17 323 1.5 β€” β€”
PetalBotHuawei Search engines 379 13 324 1.2 100% β€”
DuckDuckBotDuckDuckGo Search engines 194 7 23 8.4 100% β€”
BaiduspiderBaidu Search engines 108 4 62 1.7 0% 40
TwitterbotX Social previews 103 3 69 1.5 β€” β€”
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo AI user fetch 33 1 27 1.2 β€” β€”
cohere-aiCohere AI training 33 1 26 1.3 β€” β€”
Perplexity-UserPerplexity AI user fetch 30 1 26 1.2 0% 30
BytespiderByteDance AI training 23 1 21 1.1 β€” β€”
PinterestbotPinterest Social previews 22 1 2 11.0 β€” β€”
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic AI search 21 1 19 1.1 0% 40
Claude-UserAnthropic AI user fetch 18 1 15 1.2 16% 27
Screaming FrogScreaming Frog SEO tools 13 0 4 3.3 β€” β€”
SlackbotSlack Social previews 6 0 2 3.0 β€” β€”
DiscordbotDiscord Social previews 1 0 1 1.0 β€” β€”
CCBotCommon Crawl AI training 0 0 0 0.0 0% 36

The standouts of the last 30 days #

Most hits per day

Fewest hits per page: visits once and moves on

Most hits per page: keeps fetching the same few

Most different pages visited

Fewest days seen (at least 10 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.

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, β€œAI Crawler Index”, mojodojo.io/ai-crawler-index, accessed 8 Oct 2026. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link back.

Bot Type Check
ChatGPT-User AI user fetch Published IP ranges
Claude-User AI user fetch Published IP ranges
Perplexity-User AI user fetch Published IP ranges
MistralAI-User AI user fetch Not verifiable
DuckAssistBot AI user fetch Not verifiable
Meta-ExternalFetcher AI user fetch Not verifiable
OAI-SearchBot AI search Published IP ranges
Claude-SearchBot AI search Published IP ranges
PerplexityBot AI search Published IP ranges
GPTBot AI training Published IP ranges
ClaudeBot AI training Published IP ranges
CCBot AI training Published IP ranges
Meta-ExternalAgent AI training Not verifiable
Bytespider AI training Not verifiable
Amazonbot AI training Reverse DNS
cohere-ai AI training Not verifiable
Diffbot AI training Not verifiable
Googlebot Search engines IP ranges + reverse DNS
GoogleOther Search engines IP ranges + reverse DNS
Bingbot Search engines IP ranges + reverse DNS
DuckDuckBot Search engines Published IP ranges
Applebot Search engines IP ranges + reverse DNS
YandexBot Search engines Reverse DNS
Baiduspider Search engines Reverse DNS
PetalBot Search engines Reverse DNS
Sogou Search engines Not verifiable
AhrefsBot SEO tools Published IP ranges
SemrushBot SEO tools Reverse DNS
MJ12bot SEO tools Not verifiable
DotBot SEO tools Not verifiable
Screaming Frog SEO tools Not verifiable
FacebookBot Social previews Not verifiable
Twitterbot Social previews Not verifiable
LinkedInBot Social previews Not verifiable
Pinterestbot Social previews Reverse DNS
Slackbot Social previews Not verifiable
Discordbot Social previews Not verifiable
TelegramBot Social previews Not verifiable
Social previews Not verifiable
Internet Archive Archive Not verifiable
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