Website operators across the web are reporting increased activity from AI web crawlers. This surge raises concerns about site performance, analytics, and server resources. These bots consume significant bandwidth to collect data for large language models, which could impact performance metrics relevant to search rankings. Here’s what you need to know. How AI Crawlers May … Read more
A report released by Vercel highlights the growing impact of AI bots in web crawling. OpenAI’s GPTBot and Anthropic’s Claude generate nearly 1 billion requests monthly across Vercel’s network. The data indicates that GPTBot made 569 million requests in the past month, while Claude accounted for 370 million. Additionally, PerplexityBot contributed 24.4 million fetches, and … Read more
Google revealed details of two new crawlers that are optimized for scraping image and video content for “research and development” purposes. Although the documentation doesn’t explicitly say so, it’s presumed that there is no impact in ranking should publishers decide to block the new crawlers. It should be noted that the data scraped by these … Read more
