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AI bot traffic
Which AI crawlers visit websites, what each one does, how to tell a real bot from a fake one, and how to check that you aren't blocking them by mistake.
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AI Crawler User Agents: The 2026 Reference List for Your robots.txt and LogsEvery major AI crawler user agent in one list - OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google, Apple, ByteDance - with what each bot does and its robots.txt token. · 5 min readDo it in DidYouSEOBot trafficSee which AI and search bots visit your site, and how often.See Bot traffic
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- How to Verify Googlebot Is Really Googlebot (and Catch the Impostors)Anyone can fake a Googlebot user-agent. Here's how to verify Googlebot with reverse DNS, plus how to check Bingbot and spot impostor crawlers. · 4 min read
- GPTBot vs ChatGPT-User vs OAI-SearchBot: OpenAI's Three Crawlers, ExplainedOpenAI runs three different bots - GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, and OAI-SearchBot - and blocking the wrong one costs you AI visibility. Here's what each does. · 4 min read
- Bot Traffic Is Now Most of the Web. Here's Who's Actually Reading Your SiteBots now generate 57.5% of web traffic, and AI crawlers are the fastest-growing slice. Here's who's reading your site - and how to see them. · 6 min read
- How to Check If ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity Are Blocked From Your SiteA step-by-step way to check whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot can actually reach your site - and the one-line mistake that blocks them silently. · 4 min read
- Does ChatGPT Actually Crawl Your Website? What GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot Really DoWe checked whether AI crawlers visit our own site using normal analytics - and learned exactly why most sites are flying blind on bot traffic. · 5 min read