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 | 101,166 |
| SemrushBot | 99,365 |
| AhrefsBot | 93,261 (93211 tracked + ~50 pre) |
| Googlebot | 87,413 (87263 tracked + ~150 pre) |
| Bytespider | 79,633 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| articles/step-by-step-guide-to-programmatic-seo-implementation | 2026-04-21 08:45:42 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| ghana/google-ads-cpc-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:42 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| macau/seo-tool-usage-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:38 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| blog/top-10-digital-marketing-trends-in-north-korea | 2026-04-21 08:45:38 | US | bingbotBOT |
| ghana/digital-divide-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:35 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| macau/google-ads-cpc-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:32 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| austria/cross-border-ecommerce-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:31 | ES | ChatGPT-UserBOT |
| china/content-marketing-roi-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:31 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| ghana/ai-market-size-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:29 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| georgia/ppc-impression-share-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:27 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| germany/ssl-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:23 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| india/affiliate-program-growth-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:21 | AU | ChatGPT-UserBOT |
| macau/ai-market-size-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:20 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| bahrain/ecommerce-same-day-delivery-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:15 | SG | BytespiderBOT |
| luxembourg/video-seo-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:13 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| sudan/website-uptime-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:10 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| germany/app-download-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:07 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| lithuania/mobile-seo-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:03 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| guinea-bissau/ad-tech-market-size-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:03 | VN | OldChrome/107BOT |
| blog/top-10-marketing-automation-tools-in-tanzania | 2026-04-21 08:45:03 | VN | OldChrome/112BOT |
| cyprus/ai-startup-funding-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:02 | VN | OldChrome/116BOT |
| georgia/ecommerce-same-day-delivery-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:02 | VN | OldChrome/104BOT |
| angola/top-affiliate-networks-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:45:02 | VN | OldChrome/112BOT |
| georgia/ssl-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:56 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| libya/website-uptime-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:53 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| ivory-coast/ecommerce-personalization-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:51 | SG | BytespiderBOT |
| sudan/google-ads-cpc-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:49 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| georgia/blog-traffic-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:46 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| finland/linkedin-marketing-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:44 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| libya/seo-tool-usage-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:43 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| sudan/digital-divide-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:40 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| georgia/app-download-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:37 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| libya/google-ads-cpc-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:34 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| gambia/sms-marketing-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:28 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| moldova/domain-registration-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:25 | SG | BytespiderBOT |
| libya/digital-divide-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:24 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| sri-lanka/mobile-seo-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:21 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| gambia/live-commerce-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:18 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| libya/ai-market-size-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:14 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| bahrain/no-code-platform-revenue-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:13 | US | bingbotBOT |
| spain/website-uptime-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:11 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| kazakhstan/ai-overview-search-impact-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:10 | ES | ChatGPT-UserBOT |
| kazakhstan/search-query-volume-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:10 | ES | ChatGPT-UserBOT |
| gambia/green-hosting-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:08 | DE | SERankingBacklinksBotBOT |
| kenya/ai-search-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:07 | US | SemrushBotBOT |
| germany/cms-market-share-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:05 | VN | OldChrome/116BOT |
| antigua-and-barbuda/ai-job-market-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:04 | VN | OldChrome/107BOT |
| ecuador/video-engagement-rate-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:03 | VN | OldChrome/109BOT |
| hong-kong/real-time-analytics-adoption-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:03 | VN | OldChrome/107BOT |
| guatemala/website-loading-speed-statistics | 2026-04-21 08:44:03 | VN | OldChrome/111BOT |