Trakkr Data

AI traffic

Which AI engines actually send referral traffic to the web, and how fast it's growing. Measured from real AI-referral sessions across an anonymised panel of GA4 properties, broken down by engine and by industry.

Updated yesterday·Jun 1, 2025 – Jun 8, 2026
AI referrals / day
88K65.5%
across the panel · vs 30 days ago
ChatGPT share
90.7%8.7pp
of all AI referrals
Engines sending traffic
9
with measurable share
Properties
4.2K
GA4 properties in panel

AI referral traffic over time

Daily AI-referral sessions across the panel. The long arc is up and to the right; the week-to-week line is noisier.

40K60K80K100K120K140KGPT-5Black FridayChristmasGPT-5.4Opus 4.7
Jun 1Oct 3Feb 4Jun 8
Source: Trakkr AI Traffic Index · daily AI-referral sessions · CC BY 4.0

Who sends the traffic

Every AI engine ranked by its share of referral traffic, with 30-day momentum and a 60-day trend.

#EngineShare of AI traffic
1ChatGPT
90.7%
2Gemini
5.0%
3Claude
1.6%
4Perplexity
1.5%
5CCopilot
1.2%
6YYou.com
0.03%
7PPoe
0.03%
8Grok
0.01%
9DeepSeek
0.00%

How the mix is shifting

The engine breakdown of AI referral traffic, week by week, since tracking began.

0%25%50%75%100%Jun 7Oct 11Feb 7Jun 8
Weekly · share of AI referrals

Where AI traffic lands

The verticals seeing the most AI-referral momentum, by 30-day change across the panel.

Education & PublicHot
183
162%
8%
Lifestyle & HealthHot
1.0K
77%
1%
Technology & FinanceHot
659
74%
4%
OtherHot
302
62%
40%
Entertainment
112
37%
23%
Commerce
1.8K
36%
10%
Fastest-growing vertical: Education & Public, up 162% over 30 days.
Methodology

Built from referral sessions logged in Google Analytics across an anonymised panel of 4.2K properties, attributed to AI engines by their source domains (chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com, perplexity.ai and more) and re-counted daily. Market share is each engine's portion of all AI-referral traffic over the most recent 30 days. Counts are panel volume, not the whole web.

Trakkr AI Traffic Index·RankingsCC BY 4.0

Common questions

Which AI engine sends the most referral traffic?

ChatGPT sends by far the most AI referral traffic to the web today, with Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot a smaller but fast-growing share. The dataset breaks referral sessions down by engine, with momentum and industry splits.

Is AI referral traffic growing?

Yes — quickly. AI engines still send a small share of total web traffic, but the curve is rising fast. This dataset tracks it daily across an anonymised GA4 panel.

How is AI referral traffic measured?

From referral sessions in an anonymised panel of GA4 properties, attributed to AI-engine source domains (for example chatgpt.com and perplexity.ai), then aggregated by engine and industry.