{
  "kind": "fact",
  "studySlug": "crawler-behavior",
  "slug": "single-visit-sessions-dominate-ai-crawler-behavior",
  "title": "Single-visit sessions dominate AI crawler behavior",
  "description": "AI crawlers are usually shallow readers.",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-02-01",
  "lastTested": "2026-02-01",
  "sourceStudyUrl": "/trakkr-research/crawler-behavior",
  "sourceStudyTitle": "When AI Comes to Your Website",
  "claimIds": [
    "crawler-behavior:one-visit"
  ],
  "relatedSlugs": [
    "answer:do-ai-crawlers-read-sites-deeply",
    "answer:are-weekend-patterns-real-for-ai-crawlers",
    "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": "88.5% of observed AI crawler sessions consist of a single visit.",
  "supportingMetrics": [
    {
      "label": "One-visit sessions",
      "value": "88.5%",
      "detail": "Most AI crawler visits are one-and-done sessions."
    }
  ],
  "whyItMatters": "Strategists must optimize high priority pages for immediate data extraction. Since crawlers rarely navigate multiple pages within a single session, critical information and context must be fully accessible on the entry page to ensure accurate ingestion by large language models.",
  "citationBlock": {
    "quote": "88.5% of observed crawler sessions were one-visit sessions.",
    "attribution": "When AI Comes to Your Website - Trakkr Research",
    "url": "https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/crawler-behavior/facts/single-visit-sessions-dominate-ai-crawler-behavior"
  }
}