Index2026-07 — 2026-08

AI crawler verification rate

The share of requests naming an AI crawler that, checked against the provider's own published rule at the moment they arrived, turned out to come from that provider. The sample is only requests that could be checked; claims with nothing to check against are excluded.

Covers
2026-07 — 2026-08
Method
Each request whose user agent names an AI provider is checked on arrival against that provider's published IP ranges or forward-confirmed reverse DNS. Value = verified / (verified + failed) for the month; requests recorded as claims only are excluded from both.
Method version
1.0
Last point added
2026-09-21

Series

| Month | Verified share | Checkable requests | Point added | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-07 | 92% | 422 | 2026-09-21 | | 2026-08 | 43% | 7 404 | 2026-09-21 |

Only closed months appear. A month is added once, after it ends, and is never recomputed afterwards; the "point added" column records when. The first month is partial: the series starts on 25.07.2026, when crawler requests began to be recorded with their verification result.

How to read it

A falling value does not by itself mean more impersonation: providers add addresses before they publish them, and the published lists are fetched at the time of each check.

Method

Each request whose user agent names an AI provider is checked on arrival against that provider's published IP ranges or forward-confirmed reverse DNS. Value = verified / (verified + failed) for the month; requests recorded as claims only are excluded from both. Method version 1.0. If the method changes, the version changes and this page states from which month the new version applies; earlier points keep the method they were computed with.

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