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A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry

The Cloudflare Blog · 28 August 2025 · 7 min read

A post on blog.cloudflare.com, published 28 August 2025, is cited by 5 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 17 October 2026).

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5blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time55
Last 90 days11
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Figures for this page
First cited17 Sept 2025
Latest citation8 Aug 2026
Words blogs link it with4
External links21
Length1,476
New citing blogs a weeksince Sept 2025
New citing blogs a week, since Sept 2025: 57 weeks, peak 1 a week, latest week 0

0 this week (still settling) · peak 1

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Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

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Cited by 5 blogs across 1 subject: technology 4, unclassified 1.

Words blogs link it with

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • ai crawler traffic by purpose and industry1 blog
  • ai crawlers1 blog
  • anthropic crawled roughly 50,000 pages for every referral it sent1 blog
  • the web is experiencing a large increase in traffic due to ai crawlers1 blog

Cited by 5 blogs in 5 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

GEO vs SEO: What Actually Changes in the Workflow (And What Does Not)

linked as “Anthropic crawled roughly 50,000 pages for every referral it sent”

Read at guptadeepak.com (opens in a new tab)
8 Aug 2026
Did AI Crawlers Kill SPARQL Federation?

linked as “the Web is experiencing a large increase in traffic due to AI crawlers”

Read at rubensworks.net (opens in a new tab)
13 Apr 2026
Search kind of sucks now

linked as “AI crawler traffic by purpose and industry”

Read at notes.willhackett.com (opens in a new tab)
15 Nov 2025

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