Research

What agents do, measured

Original analysis built on the agent traffic Arrivl tracks — how AI crawlers, indexers, and live fetchers actually behave on real sites, and what that means for showing up in their answers.

ExperimentOctober 22, 2026

AI Search Visibility for New Hotels

We tested whether AI knows about the newly opened InterContinental Taipei, recommends it to travelers, and can help them book a stay.

Interactive report
ResearchSeptember 16, 2026

GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User: what each one actually does on a real site

Five names, three jobs. On nine sites between 25 August and 15 September 2026, 98.2% of ChatGPT-User requests went to content pages, while 71.0% of ClaudeBot requests went to robots.txt and sitemaps.

12 min read
ResearchSeptember 16, 2026

How Often Do AI Crawlers Come Back? Most Pages They Crawl Once

AI crawlers arrive in bursts, they pick a small set of pages to return to, and most pages they crawl they crawl once.

10 min read
ResearchSeptember 16, 2026

How much Googlebot and GPTBot traffic is fake, and how to tell

We matched every crawler request on our own site and six customer sites against the vendors' published IP ranges. On arrivl.ai, 87.8% of Googlebot requests came from Google and 21.9% of GPTBot requests came from OpenAI.

12 min read
ResearchSeptember 16, 2026

Does anything actually fetch your llms.txt? Here is what the server logs say

46 days of server logs from 39 business sites: named AI agents asked for /llms.txt 100 times, while five OpenAI and Anthropic fetchers made 195,245 requests to ordinary pages.

13 min read

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