{
  "kind": "fact",
  "studySlug": "crawler-behavior",
  "slug": "claudebot-is-far-more-homepage-friendly-than-gptbot",
  "title": "ClaudeBot is far more homepage-friendly than GPTBot",
  "description": "A comparative analysis of AI crawler entry points based on the study When AI Comes to Your Website.",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-02-01",
  "lastTested": "2026-02-01",
  "sourceStudyUrl": "/trakkr-research/crawler-behavior",
  "sourceStudyTitle": "When AI Comes to Your Website",
  "claimIds": [
    "crawler-behavior:claudebot-homepage",
    "crawler-behavior:gptbot-homepage"
  ],
  "relatedSlugs": [
    "answer:does-gptbot-behave-differently-from-claudebot",
    "answer:do-ai-crawlers-read-sites-deeply",
    "tracker:crawler-depth-and-entry-tracker"
  ],
  "methodologySummary": "Built from 575,788 AI crawler visits across 84 brands and 314,501 unique URLs observed between June 11, 2025 and February 1, 2026.",
  "limitations": [
    "This study measures observable crawler traffic rather than hidden fetches or internal cache reads.",
    "One dominant e-commerce brand was excluded to keep the page-type patterns more generalizable.",
    "Visit share and homepage preference vary sharply by bot family, so averages can hide crawler-specific behavior."
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "AI crawlers",
    "GPTBot behavior",
    "ClaudeBot behavior",
    "AI bot traffic"
  ],
  "schemaHints": {
    "pageType": "Article",
    "includeDataset": true
  },
  "claim": "ClaudeBot accesses the homepage during 19.18 percent of its crawls, whereas GPTBot accesses the homepage during only 2.75 percent of its crawls.",
  "supportingMetrics": [
    {
      "label": "ClaudeBot homepage rate",
      "value": "19.18%",
      "detail": "ClaudeBot is much more likely to touch the homepage."
    },
    {
      "label": "GPTBot homepage rate",
      "value": "2.75%",
      "detail": "GPTBot rarely starts on the homepage."
    }
  ],
  "whyItMatters": "Strategists must allocate technical resources based on crawler specific entry behaviors, prioritizing homepage optimization for ClaudeBot while focusing deep link architecture for GPTBot.",
  "citationBlock": {
    "quote": "ClaudeBot touches the homepage 19.18% of the time versus GPTBot at 2.75%.",
    "attribution": "When AI Comes to Your Website - Trakkr Research",
    "url": "https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/crawler-behavior/facts/claudebot-is-far-more-homepage-friendly-than-gptbot"
  }
}