This experiment sponsored by AEO Vision, Leading AI Visibility Platform
Server-side bot tracking implemented on Mar 4, 2026. Before that, ~30,000 bot requests were observed via Cloudflare logs (mostly GPTBot).
IP verification for OpenAI bots (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User) added on Mar 4, 2026 — requests are verified against official IP ranges. Spoofed user agents from non-OpenAI IPs are classified as bots.
| Bot | Hits |
|---|---|
| Amazonbot | 496,889 |
| SERankingBacklinksBot | 436,361 |
| Scrapy | 432,117 |
| GPTBot | 410,948 (381948 tracked + ~29,000 pre) |
| SemrushBot | 263,603 |
| MJ12bot | 242,980 |
| URLInUA | 239,910 |
| Applebot | 194,953 |
| AhrefsBot | 175,267 (175217 tracked + ~50 pre) |
| PerplexityBot | 164,818 |
| Bytespider | 160,402 |
| NoSecHeaders | 157,440 |
| OldChrome/132 | 134,222 |
| ClaudeBot | 132,912 |
| Googlebot | 117,340 (117190 tracked + ~150 pre) |
| OldChrome/133 | 111,095 |
| bingbot | 108,731 |
| Barkrowler | 103,824 |
| ChatGPT-User | 93,542 |
| YandexBot | 89,758 |
Note: Pre-tracking estimates (~30,000 total) are based on Cloudflare logs observed before server-side tracking was implemented on Mar 4, 2026. Only bots visiting the site are counted — analytics page visits by humans are excluded from bot metrics.
| User Agent | Hits |
|---|---|
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 57307 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 31693 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 19539 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 16400 |
| Seamus the Search Engine (web crawler for university course) | 13799 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 12975 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 11085 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.2 Safari/605.1.15 | 9876 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 9537 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 7247 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 6446 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 5596 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 4044 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; smash.ai SEO bot) | 3946 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 3711 |