THE CRAWLER LOGS

AI crawler behavior observed on production mirror sites

Insights

Overview

Totals

• Total LLM Bot Requests: 46,418
• Citation Events: 14,465
• Days of Data: 143
• Log Entries: 5

Log Entries

Entry #15 · June 29, 2026

A 90-day window of 461,328 bot requests across our production AI-native sites. llms.txt and the JSON feeds drew 0.97% of traffic combined. The bots that answer users ignored the AI-native layer hardest (ChatGPT-User 0.14%, ClaudeBot 0.02%). The sitemap outdrew llms.txt 67 to 1.

Production AI-native sites · 90-day window · 461,328 requests across 31,935 log files · 20+ crawler classes

• The AI-native add-on layer is a rounding error: llms.txt 0.30%, JSON feeds 0.67%; no crawler spends more than 2.4% on it
• Citation bots ignore it hardest: ChatGPT-User 0.14%, ClaudeBot 0.02% (zero llms.txt fetches in 90 days)
• The index crawlers actually use is sitemap.xml (20.4% of traffic), which outdraws llms.txt 67×

Entry #14 · May 19, 2026

21 days of clean bot logs. ChatGPT-User and Claude-User made 1,517 content fetches on Genymotion’s AI site. Q&As behave as demand-driven answers (61% corpus coverage). Pages behave as supply-driven source citations (24% coverage, but 79% of Q&A sessions also fetched at least one cited source).

rozz.genymotion.com · Apr 29 – May 19, 2026 · 21 days · 545 pages + 262 Q&As + 16 topics + 2 runbooks

• Q&A coverage 2.5× higher than pages; Q&As show a real long tail (top-10 = 41% of fetches)
• 76% of /pages corpus never fetched directly — but pages get pulled as Q&A source citations
• ClaudeBot: 209 sitemap.xml fetches, 0 llms.txt fetches — AI-native discovery isn’t the channel yet

Entry #13 · May 5, 2026

Three weeks after shipping enterprise content on Genymotion’s AI site, we compared two 14-day windows. The on-site chatbot’s buyer rate stayed flat (7.2% → 8.1%). The AI site’s buyer/professional content reads jumped from 35.9% to 45.0%. Two channels, two audiences.

rozz.genymotion.com + genymotion.com chatbot · Mar 11–24 vs. Apr 21–May 4, 2026 · 856 ChatGPT-User content reads (14 days)

• Chatbot buyer rate flat at 7–8% across months—website still draws hobbyists
• AI site buyer/professional reads: 264 (35.9%) → 385 (45.0%); free-user reads dropped from 39.9% to 31.5%
• Claude-User now 26 hits / 14 days—24 from Claude Code; one 19-fetch procurement pattern in 70 seconds

Entry #12 · Apr 22, 2026

Genymotion’s AI site has 16 topic pages. In one week of logs, AI platforms asked for 61 more that no longer exist—1,001 requests to retired topic URLs. Clustering-algorithm iterations kept improving the taxonomy but broke every external cache that learned the old map.

rozz.genymotion.com · Apr 15–22, 2026 · 3,484 LLM bot requests this week

• 61 retired topic URLs drew 1,001 requests in 7 days; ChatGPT-User contributed 387
• Live topic hubs also crawled every week—LLM systems treat the topic layer as durable structure
• Fix: canonical topics + URL registry + 61 301-redirect mappings to current equivalents

Entry #11 · Apr 14, 2026

People evaluate products through ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity now—and the company whose product is being discussed usually has no idea it happened. 667 chatbot conversations and 2,500+ reconstructed ChatGPT sessions show who’s actually asking, what they want, and where the conversations lead.

rozz.genymotion.com + Genymotion.com chatbot · Mar 1 – Apr 14, 2026 · 3,830 March AI site fetches, 1,323 this week

• Two data sources reveal invisible AI-mediated evaluations: chatbot intent on the site + ChatGPT session reconstruction via CloudFront logs
• 95% of chatbot conversations are hobbyists/individual users; enterprise-buyer goals represent <5%—not the audience marketing targets
• Reconstructed sessions show live pricing evaluations, cross-continent macOS checks, and recurring VirtualBox bug reports no one else sees

Entry #10 · Apr 8, 2026

Three AI platforms—ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User—now retrieve content from the same AI site during live user sessions. 9,250 citation requests across 90 days. Three months ago there were zero.

rozz.genymotion.com · Jan 8 – Apr 8, 2026 · 22,679 total LLM bot requests (90-day cumulative)

• Perplexity-User first appearance (Apr 5)—all 3 major citation pipelines now active
• 376 commits across 90 days; structural fixes (sitemaps, robots.txt, topic taxonomy) drove every breakthrough
• Q&A pages drive 66–75% of citations; CLI runbooks open a developer-tool sales channel

Entry #9 · Mar 31, 2026

A developer asked Claude Code how much Genymotion costs. Ten seconds later, it was showing them how to set it up. Both answers came from our AI site. 14 Claude-User requests in 6 days, 12 from Claude Code.

rozz.genymotion.com · Mar 24–31, 2026 · 1,612 total LLM bot requests

• Claude-User: first-ever appearance—14 requests, 12 from Claude Code terminal sessions
• 10 seconds from pricing Q&A to CLI runbook—evaluation and implementation in one session
• Claude pipeline complete: ClaudeBot crawl → 5 days → Claude-User live retrieval

Entry #8 · Mar 24, 2026

ClaudeBot made 958 requests in one week, up from 123 the week before. 503 GEO pages and 162 Q&A pages—the largest ClaudeBot crawl since December. Six hours after deploying per-topic sitemaps, it came back.

rozz.genymotion.com · Mar 17–24, 2026 · 2,446 total LLM bot requests

• ClaudeBot 8x increase (123 → 958) triggered the day per-topic sitemapindex was deployed
• March 20: 577 ClaudeBot requests in a single day—largest since December
• Every major AI crawler has now completed a deep indexing event on the AI site

Entry #7 · Mar 17, 2026

PerplexityBot made 511 requests in one week, up from 42 the week before. It crawled 172 Q&A pages and 256 GEO pages—more content in 7 days than in its entire prior history on the site combined.

rozz.genymotion.com · Mar 10–17, 2026 · 2,532 total LLM bot requests

• PerplexityBot 12x increase (42 → 511) triggered the day after index page redesign
• 84% of PerplexityBot requests hit content pages—Q&A and GEO pages, no homepage
• ClaudeBot: 0 Q&A pages, 0 Claude-SearchBot traffic—still in discovery mode after 3 weeks

Entry #6 · Mar 10, 2026

ChatGPT-User made 681 visits in one week. By grouping visits into sessions using IP hashes and timing, we reconstructed 168 sessions showing how users navigate AI-mediated discovery.

rozz.genymotion.com · Mar 3–10, 2026 · 681 ChatGPT-User visits

• 4.6 pages fetched per turn—ChatGPT-User verifies across multiple sources, not just one
• 28% of sessions hit only the index page and stopped—led to index redesign
• 30% of sessions are multi-turn: we can reconstruct actual ChatGPT conversations

Entry #5 · Mar 3, 2026

We tested 24 queries across four AI platforms. ChatGPT cites Genymotion 83% of the time. Claude, 21%. Perplexity, 17%. Gemini, 4%. The first three track with crawl volume. Gemini doesn’t crawl the AI site at all.

rozz.genymotion.com · Feb 24 – Mar 3, 2026 · 24 queries × 4 platforms

• ChatGPT: 83% citation rate, up from 14% before the AI site launched
• ClaudeBot jumped 24x (21 to 505 requests)—reads topic taxonomy, not individual pages
• Gemini recommends Genymotion in most queries but doesn’t link—different pipeline entirely

Entry #4 · Feb 24, 2026

BingBot made 1,556 requests this week—more than any other bot, including ChatGPT-User. What started as a ChatGPT story is now happening across six platforms.

rozz.genymotion.com · Feb 17–24, 2026 · 3,188 total requests

• BingBot: 1,556 requests—largest single bot category, surpassing ChatGPT-User
• ChatGPT-User citations: 1,329, up from 1,077 the prior week (+23%)
• Six platforms now crawling: OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, Meta, ByteDance, Perplexity

Entry #3 · Feb 17, 2026

ChatGPT citations hit 1,077 this week—3x the 345 reported last week. Six-week trajectory: 42 → 345 → 1,077. Q&A pages drive 66% of all citations.

rozz.genymotion.com · Feb 10–17, 2026 · 2,606 total requests

• 1,077 ChatGPT citations in 7 days—3x the previous week's 345
• Q&A pages remain the citation driver: 66% of all ChatGPT requests
• PerplexityBot activity up 5x: 33 requests vs 7 the previous week

Entry #2 · Feb 10, 2026

ChatGPT citations grew from 7 to 116 in one week. 345 citation events, 161 unique sessions, and 75% of requests hitting Q&A pages—not traditional content.

rozz.genymotion.com · Feb 2–9, 2026 · 2,195 total requests

• 16x daily citation growth: from 7 on Feb 2 to 116 on Feb 9
• 75% of ChatGPT requests landed on Q&A pages, not traditional content
• Q&A pages cited 10x more than traditional GEO content pages

Entry #1 · Feb 3, 2026

GPTBot made 547 requests in a single day—47% of all training bot activity in 30 days. Three weeks later, ChatGPT users were receiving content in their conversations.

rozz.genymotion.com · Jan 3–Feb 2, 2026 · 1,280 total requests

• GPTBot made 547 requests on January 7—47% of 30-day training activity in one day
• 42 citation events recorded; concentrated on high-intent pages (requirements, compatibility)
• ~3 weeks from major crawl to first ChatGPT citations

Methodology

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Author

Author: Adrien Schmidt, CEO, ROZZ

Serial tech entrepreneur with 10+ years experience building AI systems including Aristotle (conversational AI analytics) and products for eBay and Cartier.