Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers exploding, publishers blocking bots, and many platforms sending little traffic back.

Cloudflare's Year in Review shows Googlebot crawled 200 times more pages than PerplexityBot. Global Internet traffic grew 19% ...

Google is working on crawling fewer pages and reducing data consumption. Google previously revealed crawling decisions are dynamic and based on different factors. Improving content quality is vital to ...

Cloudflare accused AI answer engine Perplexity of “stealth crawling,” saying it uses deceptive techniques to bypass website blocks and access content it’s been explicitly told not to touch. The big ...

OpenAI unveiled a new search engine called SearchGPT last week. Several top publisher sites are already blocking the related OpenAI web crawler, OAI-SearchBot. OpenAI says this new bot doesn't collect ...

For 20 years, most SEO professionals only cared about Googlebot. However, in the last few years, a host of new crawlers have emerged from different indexing platforms, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and ...

How Atlas Brain Turns Structured Data and Crawl Signals Into Real-Time SEO Intelligence New York City, United States – December 29, 2025 / Search Atlas / New York, NY – 29 December 2025 Search Atlas, ...

Overview: Web crawling focuses on discovering and listing pages across the internet at scaleWeb scraping pulls specific data like prices or headlines from known ...

There are several posts in the Search Central Forum about this, and I just saw the issue pop up for a client. Google's Crawl Stats reporting drops heavily around 8/8. There is no impact to rankings ...