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 | 199,281 |
| GPTBot | 210,367 (181367 tracked + ~29,000 pre) |
| PerplexityBot | 164,748 |
| Amazonbot | 164,662 |
| Applebot | 107,063 |
| MJ12bot | 100,266 |
| AhrefsBot | 93,260 (93210 tracked + ~50 pre) |
| Googlebot | 86,770 (86620 tracked + ~150 pre) |
| Bytespider | 72,607 |
| ClaudeBot | 71,433 |
| meta-externalagentBOT | 65,498 |
| SemrushBot | 65,476 |
| meta-externalagent | 62,914 |
| DotBot | 62,359 |
| NoSecHeaders | 59,056 |
| YandexBot | 46,102 |
| ChatGPT-User | 42,946 |
| OldChrome/132 | 40,152 |
| AmazonbotBOT | 38,963 |
| OldChrome/122 | 38,535 |
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 | 29092 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 18837 |
| 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/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 10810 |
| 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 | 10689 |
| 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 | 9707 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 6490 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 4111 |
| 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 | 2735 |
| 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 | 2620 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 2214 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | 1843 |
| 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 | 1619 |
| Page | Time | Country | User Agent |
|---|---|---|---|
| argentina/checkout-optimization-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:20 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| south-sudan | 2026-04-17 03:34:20 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| andorra/machine-learning-spending-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:19 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| equatorial-guinea | 2026-04-17 03:34:19 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| armenia/form-optimization-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:19 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| lebanon/affiliate-influencer-crossover-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:19 | US | bingbotBOT |
| thailand/interactive-video-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:19 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| liberia/accessibility-compliance-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:19 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| czech-republic | 2026-04-17 03:34:18 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| colombia/email-ab-testing-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:18 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| san-marino | 2026-04-17 03:34:18 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| eritrea/email-personalization-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:18 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| lithuania/ppc-impression-share-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:18 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| south-ossetia | 2026-04-17 03:34:18 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| sierra-leone/ab-testing-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:17 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| zimbabwe/mobile-commerce-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:17 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| argentina/ssl-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:17 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| united-kingdom | 2026-04-17 03:34:17 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| iran/accessibility-compliance-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:17 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| chad/cloud-security-incidents-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:16 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| kazakhstan | 2026-04-17 03:34:16 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| andorra/checkout-optimization-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:16 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| solomon-islands | 2026-04-17 03:34:16 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| iran/headless-cms-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:16 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| eritrea/cloud-security-incidents-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:16 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| saint-lucia | 2026-04-17 03:34:16 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| belize/email-personalization-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:16 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| thailand/influencer-marketing-spend-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:16 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| germany/email-personalization-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:15 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| benin/ppc-impression-share-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:15 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| zimbabwe/cybersecurity-spending-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:15 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| south-africa | 2026-04-17 03:34:15 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| belarus/email-personalization-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:15 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| austria/interactive-video-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:15 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| vatican-city | 2026-04-17 03:34:15 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| andorra/saas-api-integration-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:14 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| croatia/form-optimization-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:14 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| tuvalu/edge-computing-growth-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:14 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| venezuela/mobile-app-retention-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:14 | US | AmazonbotBOT |
| timor-leste | 2026-04-17 03:34:14 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| cuba/edge-computing-growth-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:14 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| bahrain/checkout-optimization-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:14 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| djibouti | 2026-04-17 03:34:14 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| slovenia | 2026-04-17 03:34:14 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| belgium/affiliate-program-growth-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:14 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| belarus/video-thumbnail-ctr-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:13 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| austria/attribution-model-usage-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:13 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| thailand/hosting-security-incidents-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:13 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| monaco/email-personalization-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:12 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |
| botswana/affiliate-mobile-share-statistics | 2026-04-17 03:34:12 | US | ClaudeBotBOT |