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 |
|---|---|
| SERankingBacklinksBot | 244,284 |
| Amazonbot | 189,156 |
| GPTBot | 210,941 (181941 tracked + ~29,000 pre) |
| PerplexityBot | 164,758 |
| Applebot | 137,054 |
| SemrushBot | 110,908 |
| MJ12bot | 109,302 |
| ClaudeBot | 101,902 |
| AhrefsBot | 96,148 (96098 tracked + ~50 pre) |
| Googlebot | 88,217 (88067 tracked + ~150 pre) |
| Bytespider | 84,716 |
| meta-externalagent | 67,148 |
| NoSecHeaders | 65,936 |
| meta-externalagentBOT | 65,498 |
| DotBot | 62,696 |
| YandexBot | 49,860 |
| ChatGPT-User | 46,290 |
| OldChrome/132 | 40,157 |
| AmazonbotBOT | 38,963 |
| OldChrome/122 | 38,566 |
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 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 29268 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 18868 |
| 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 | 10928 |
| 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 | 10842 |
| 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 | 9749 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 6569 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 4258 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; smash.ai SEO bot) | 3946 |
| CELTurbo-eecs498/1.1 alvinhat@umich.edu (Linux) | 3024 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 2755 |
| 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 | 2722 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 2314 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 2084 |
| 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 | 1721 |
| Page | Time | Country | User Agent |
|---|---|---|---|
| guinea/no-code-platform-revenue-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:56 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| japan/local-search-volume-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:54 | JP | ChatGPT-UserBOT |
| japan/search-query-volume-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:54 | JP | ChatGPT-UserBOT |
| spain/email-automation-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:53 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| hong-kong/saas-market-size-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:51 | VN | OldChrome/120BOT |
| mongolia/affiliate-mobile-share-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:50 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| guinea/mobile-video-consumption-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:46 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| north-macedonia/email-marketing-revenue-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:46 | SG | BytespiderBOT |
| spain/ecommerce-personalization-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:43 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| mongolia/affiliate-content-type-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:40 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| saudi-arabia/internet-outage-frequency-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:38 | PL | ChatGPT-UserBOT |
| taiwan/saas-pricing-trends-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:37 | US | Spoofed-ChatGPT-UserBOT |
| guinea/mobile-gaming-ad-revenue-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:37 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| spain/ecommerce-payment-methods-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:34 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| monaco/website-carbon-footprint-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:31 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| bahrain/website-redesign-frequency-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:30 | FR | AhrefsBotBOT |
| guinea/marketing-automation-roi-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:28 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| spain/ecommerce-conversion-rate-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:25 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| monaco/web-analytics-tool-usage-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:22 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| fiji | 2026-04-23 08:42:21 | US | bingbotBOT |
| guinea/managed-hosting-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:19 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| bangladesh/mobile-deep-linking-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:17 | FR | AhrefsBotBOT |
| spain/core-web-vitals-pass-rate-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:16 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| puerto-rico/ai-in-marketing-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:13 | SG | BytespiderBOT |
| monaco/shopping-ads-performance-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:13 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| guinea/low-code-platform-growth-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:10 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| bahamas/cart-abandonment-rate-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:09 | FR | AhrefsBotBOT |
| vanuatu/website-accessibility-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:08 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| spain/content-syndication-reach-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:06 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| monaco/search-engine-index-size-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:03 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| nepal/generative-ai-usage-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:03 | NP | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64 |
| bahamas/chatbot-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:00 | FR | AhrefsBotBOT |
| guinea/influencer-marketing-roi-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:00 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| iceland/social-commerce-influencer-sales-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:42:00 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| niger/automated-email-performance-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:58 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| spain/ai-overview-search-impact-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:57 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| monaco/programmatic-advertising-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:54 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| bulgaria/server-side-tracking-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:54 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| guinea/email-click-through-rate-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:51 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| eswatini/instagram-marketing-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:51 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| blog/top-10-podcast-hosting-platforms-in-mongolia | 2026-04-23 08:41:49 | VN | OldChrome/104BOT |
| bahamas/cloud-hosting-growth-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:49 | FR | AhrefsBotBOT |
| serbia/internet-outage-frequency-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:49 | US | OldChrome/106BOT |
| argentina/ad-tech-market-size-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:49 | DE | OldChrome/104BOT |
| spain/affiliate-cookie-duration-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:48 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| bangladesh/marketing-automation-tools-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:48 | SG | BytespiderBOT |
| monaco/no-code-platform-revenue-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:45 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| guinea/domain-aftermarket-sales-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:41 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| spain/affiliate-commission-rate-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:38 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| south-sudan/email-marketing-roi-statistics | 2026-04-23 08:41:38 | SG | PetalBotBOT |