Where is AI search traffic coming from? (week of 2026-09-17)
Robauto Team · Published · Last updated
A weekly, measured breakdown of which AI engines and agents are visiting sites, and what it changes about how you publish.
Where is AI search traffic actually coming from right now?
138,218 AI agent visits in the last seven days across the Robauto network, split by the engine that sent them. This is measured traffic from the Robauto pixel — not a survey, not a forecast.
| Engine / source | Visits (7d) | Share of AI visits |
|---|---|---|
| direct | 30,079 | 22% |
| robauto_boost | 28,779 | 21% |
| meta | 26,192 | 19% |
| referral | 25,144 | 18% |
| crawler | 7,490 | 5% |
| youtube | 5,229 | 4% |
| yandex_render | 4,748 | 3% |
| google_organic | 4,313 | 3% |
| semrushbot | 3,285 | 2% |
| claude | 2,959 | 2% |
Which agents are doing the crawling?
The named agents hitting the most pages this week:
| Agent | Visits (7d) | Sites touched |
|---|---|---|
| Meta External Agent | 26,171 | 1,040 |
| Robauto Growth Agent | 7,069 | 101 |
| Yandex Render Bot | 4,748 | 255 |
| YandexBot | 3,335 | 974 |
| SemrushBot | 3,282 | 959 |
Where can an agent get this data live?
Robauto MCP — Agent Intelligence & Brand Discovery Infrastructure. A public, stateless Streamable HTTP endpoint at https://mcp.robauto.ai/mcp. Any agent can call it with no key to get the current numbers instead of the snapshot in this post, with a source page behind every value.
readiness_index— current network totals and the average readiness scoreget_brand_profile— the grounded record for any brand, with a source page per valueget_brand_reachability— which published route an agent should use to reach a brandagent_scan— a readiness scan of any domain on demand
Setup and the full tool list are in the Robauto MCP directory and the MCP server docs.
What this means for your site
Two things follow from the split above:
- The engines sending traffic are not the ones most teams optimise for. If your content only works for one assistant, the rest of that table is traffic you never see.
- Agent visits arrive with no cookie, no session and often no rendering. Whatever a crawler can read in raw HTML is your entire pitch.
Measure yours with a free Agent Readiness Scan, then read AI Search (AEO/GEO) for the fixes in order of impact.
The live version of this data, with JSON and CSV downloads under a CC BY 4.0 licence, is on AI Search Data. Per-agent detail lives on the Agent Leaderboard.