B
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4.5%
4.5% -- crawler request share for Googlebot (2025)
Googlebot originated 4.5% of HTML content requests in 2025, slightly larger than AI bots in aggregate.
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Evidence graded
Value
4.5%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
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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://resollm.ai/blog/ai-replacing-online-review-sites/ ↗
Source Article
How AI Is Replacing Online Review Sites | ReSO Blog
Ask Google “what’s the best toaster?” and you get a list of review sites offering comparisons, rankings, and affiliate-linked recommendations. Ask ChatGPT the same question, and you just get an answer. Users often move directly from an AI recommendation to a brand site or marketplace, reducing the n…
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Cloudflare
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Methodology
Cloudflare Radar Year in Review report
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Googlebot: 4.5% crawler request share. Source: Cloudflare (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/googlebot-4-5-percent-html-requests-2025
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