{
  "kind": "fact",
  "studySlug": "crawler-behavior",
  "slug": "gptbot-and-searchbot-both-show-weekend-lift",
  "title": "GPTBot and SearchBot both show weekend lift",
  "description": "Observed crawler timing is not evenly distributed through the week.",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-02-01",
  "lastTested": "2026-02-01",
  "sourceStudyUrl": "/trakkr-research/crawler-behavior",
  "sourceStudyTitle": "When AI Comes to Your Website",
  "claimIds": [
    "crawler-behavior:gptbot-weekend",
    "crawler-behavior:oai-searchbot-weekend"
  ],
  "relatedSlugs": [
    "answer:why-do-entry-pages-matter-so-much-for-ai-bots",
    "answer:should-you-optimize-for-gptbot-and-oai-searchbot-separately",
    "tracker:crawler-share-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": "GPTBot runs 1.29x hotter on weekends, while OAI-SearchBot shows a 1.41x weekend lift.",
  "supportingMetrics": [
    {
      "label": "GPTBot weekend lift",
      "value": "1.29x",
      "detail": "GPTBot runs hotter on weekends than weekdays."
    },
    {
      "label": "OAI-SearchBot weekend lift",
      "value": "1.41x",
      "detail": "SearchBot has an even stronger weekend skew."
    }
  ],
  "whyItMatters": "Refresh monitoring should pay attention to when bots actually revisit the site.",
  "citationBlock": {
    "quote": "GPTBot runs 1.29x hotter on weekends, while OAI-SearchBot shows a 1.41x weekend lift.",
    "attribution": "When AI Comes to Your Website - Trakkr Research",
    "url": "https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/crawler-behavior/facts/gptbot-and-searchbot-both-show-weekend-lift"
  }
}