Every figure here was observed, not modelled. AI visits counted on our own pages, 40 major sites read with each crawler's real user-agent, AI answers compared week by week. Each study says how it was measured and what it means for a site like yours.
Measured on our own site and on the sites we read — nothing modelled.
txt of 40 well-known companies. 18% block at least one major AI crawler — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot — before content or authority ever matter.
StudyChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot fetch your pages without running JavaScript, so analytics never sees them.
StudySee the latest AI search statistics for 2026, from adoption and usage to how buyers use AI to choose products and vendors.
Study77% of consumers have used AI to help with shopping and 64% use it regularly, but most still will not let it spend their money.
StudyGoogle is testing a thinner AI Overview citations panel, and top-10 pages are getting a smaller share of citations.
StudyGoogle AI Mode and ChatGPT answer the same buyer question with different names.
StudyEvery fetch by GPTBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot leaves a line in your access logs.
StudyReflexa's own Index runs the same buyer question three times and already sees the mention-to-citation gap shift between runs.
The numbers behind AI search, with the sources, kept current as they move.
Still small next to Google, but growing fast: what Similarweb, SE Ranking and Adobe's 2026 data show, and the two kinds of AI visit no analytics tool counts.
DataThe newest AI search statistics as of October 2026: the AI-Google citation gap, Google's thinner AI Overview citations panel, the named-vs-cited split, and…
DataBuyers type one of four question shapes before picking software: best-for, alternatives-to, cheapest and for-a-team-of-N.
DataChatGPT has the only clearly published audience of the three, but it still disagrees with Claude and Perplexity on who to recommend.
DataIn one week of September 2026, Instacart, Shipt and Meta each shipped an AI agent that builds a cart or completes a purchase, and Amazon had already renamed…
DataAI Overviews now appear on an estimated 48-60% of Google searches, ChatGPT grew from about 800M to 900M weekly users, and only 8-12% of AI citations overlap…
DataAn AI impression in Google Search Console only means Google pulled a snippet from your page.
DataGoogle finished rolling out its new AI performance report in Search Console worldwide on August 31, 2026.
DataSee the data behind AI search trends vs traditional search: adoption, zero-click rates, citation overlap, and what buyers see first.
DataAhrefs found only 8–12% of links AI engines cite also appear in Google's top 10 for the same prompt.
DataAround 68% of Google searches now end without a click, and AI Overviews cut click-through further — while AI referral traffic is growing fast.
Reflexa Agent counts every AI visit page by page and runs the 23 checks the studies are built on.