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Citeme Research

Reports built on our own first-party telemetry rather than inferred from model answers. Every report states what it measured, on what sample, and what it cannot conclude.

September 2026

What is actually crawling you

385,057 AI-agent requests across twenty sites. Seven per cent of them are not AI agents at all, the biggest crawler has never read your robots.txt, and no efficiency metric ranks the engines the same way twice.

7.0%
of "AI crawler" traffic hits credential paths
0
robots.txt fetches by Meta in 71,547 requests
3,228
human referrals attributed to an engine