B
Evidence Grade B
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40.4%
40.4% -- share of sites crawled by ai bot for Bytespider (ByteDance) (2024-07)
Bytespider appeared on 40.40% of Cloudflare-protected sites in July 2024, the highest share of any AI bot.
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Evidence graded
Value
40.4%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2024-07
Entity
Geography
Global
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Cloudflare
Primary
Tier B
https://apollodigital.io/blog/ai-crawler-access/ ↗
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Which AI Crawlers Can Reach Your Site (2-Min Check)
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Cloudflare
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Methodology
Cloudflare network data
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Segmentation
IndustryMedia
RegionGlobal
Channelcontent
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Bytespider (ByteDance): 40.4% share of sites crawled by ai bot. Source: Cloudflare (2024-07). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/bytespider-site-presence-jul2024
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/bytespider-site-presence-jul2024" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>40.4%</strong> -- share of sites crawled by ai bot for Bytespider (ByteDance)<br><small>Source: Cloudflare (2024-07) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/bytespider-site-presence-jul2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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