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 | 213,904 |
| Amazonbot | 186,512 |
| GPTBot | 210,807 (181807 tracked + ~29,000 pre) |
| PerplexityBot | 164,754 |
| Applebot | 120,227 |
| MJ12bot | 106,836 |
| ClaudeBot | 101,179 |
| SemrushBot | 99,367 |
| AhrefsBot | 93,261 (93211 tracked + ~50 pre) |
| Googlebot | 87,413 (87263 tracked + ~150 pre) |
| Bytespider | 79,634 |
| meta-externalagent | 67,110 |
| meta-externalagentBOT | 65,498 |
| DotBot | 62,604 |
| NoSecHeaders | 60,849 |
| YandexBot | 47,845 |
| ChatGPT-User | 45,101 |
| OldChrome/132 | 40,154 |
| AmazonbotBOT | 38,963 |
| OldChrome/122 | 38,557 |
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 | 29237 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 18862 |
| 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 | 10875 |
| 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 | 10839 |
| 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 | 9738 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 6535 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 4225 |
| 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 | 2751 |
| 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 | 2700 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 2288 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 2033 |
| 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 | 1698 |
| Page | Time | Country | User Agent |
|---|---|---|---|
| iran/wix-user-growth-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:55 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| oman/email-open-rate-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:52 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| germany/blog-traffic-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:52 | BD | OldChrome/106BOT |
| chad/saas-churn-rate-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:49 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| south-ossetia/video-thumbnail-ctr-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:48 | SG | BytespiderBOT |
| tonga/seo-tool-usage-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:44 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| bahrain/ssl-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:41 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| iran/saas-churn-rate-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:38 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| thailand/contextual-advertising-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:36 | RU | YandexBotBOT |
| oman/ctv-ad-spending-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:35 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| kazakhstan/edge-computing-growth-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:34 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| chad/pageview-trends-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:32 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| tonga/google-ads-cpc-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:29 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| bahrain/blog-traffic-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:25 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| uzbekistan/jamstack-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:23 | SG | PetalBotBOT |
| iran/pageview-trends-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:22 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| blog/top-10-digital-marketing-trends-in-myanmar | 2026-04-21 08:28:22 | SG | BytespiderBOT |
| jordan/cloud-security-spending-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:20 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| oman/crm-integration-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:19 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| chad/mobile-commerce-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:16 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| tonga/digital-divide-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:13 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| bahrain/app-download-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:10 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| iran/mobile-commerce-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:06 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| macau/no-code-website-growth-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:05 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| oman/corporate-video-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:02 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| yemen/push-notification-rate-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:28:02 | BR | OldChrome/117BOT |
| articles/how-to-optimize-blog-content-for-content-marketing-purposes | 2026-04-21 08:28:01 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| chad/email-open-rate-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:59 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| tonga/ai-market-size-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:56 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| albania/ctv-ad-spending-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:56 | IN | OldChrome/131BOT |
| honduras/ai-automation-rate-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:55 | IN | OldChrome/107BOT |
| mozambique/mobile-gaming-ad-revenue-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:54 | IN | OldChrome/106BOT |
| bahamas/ssl-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:53 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| netherlands/search-engine-market-share-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:51 | MX | NoSecHeadersBOT |
| iran/email-open-rate-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:50 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| oman/broadband-speed-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:46 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| chad/ctv-ad-spending-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:43 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| togo/wix-user-growth-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:40 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| czech-republic/search-query-volume-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:38 | PL | ChatGPT-UserBOT |
| iran/ctv-ad-spending-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:34 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| andorra/social-commerce-influencer-sales-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:31 | SG | BytespiderBOT |
| oman/ai-in-marketing-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:31 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| chad/crm-integration-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:28 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| togo/saas-churn-rate-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:24 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| bahamas/app-download-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:20 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| iran/crm-integration-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:17 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| malta/domain-pricing-trends-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:15 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| norway/sms-marketing-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:14 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| new-zealand/email-open-rate-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:14 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| chad/corporate-video-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:27:11 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |