B
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1,000
1,000 -- crawler requests per minute for AI crawlers (2026)
AI crawlers can aggressively hit websites at rates between 1,000 and 39,000 requests per minute in certain cases.
- Reported as a range: 1,000 to 39,000 requests per minute in some cases
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1,000
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Count
Data Vintage
2026
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B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Previsible
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Tier B
https://previsible.com/seo-ai-news/ai-crawlability-score/ ↗
Source Article
AI Crawlability Score: Can LLMs Find Your Content? - Previsible
AI Crawlability Score: How Easily Can LLMs Understand and Retrieve Your Content?
AI crawlers are consuming 4.2% of all web traffic. GPTBot traffic grew 305% between May 2024 and May 2025. Meta’s AI crawlers alone generate 52% of all AI bot traffic.
The numbers are real. The impact is measurable. But…
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Range reported; midpoint 20,000 used
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AI crawlers: 1,000 crawler requests per minute. Source: Previsible (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-bot-request-rate-range
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