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llms.txt GeneratorGPTBot and SearchBot both show weekend lift
GPTBot runs 1.29x hotter on weekends, while OAI-SearchBot shows a 1.41x weekend lift.
Observed crawler timing is not evenly distributed through the week.
The numbers behind it.
- GPTBot weekend lift
- GPTBot runs hotter on weekends than weekdays.
- 1.29x
- OAI-SearchBot weekend lift
- SearchBot has an even stronger weekend skew.
- 1.41x
The evidence.
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| GPTBot weekend lift GPTBot runs hotter on weekends than weekdays. | 1.29x |
| OAI-SearchBot weekend lift SearchBot has an even stronger weekend skew. | 1.41x |
Population and method
Built from 575,788 AI crawler visits across 84 brands and 314,501 unique URLs observed between June 11, 2025 and February 1, 2026.
Where the evidence stops
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.
What to do with this
Refresh monitoring should pay attention to when bots actually revisit the site.
Cite this fact.
Source study: Crawler Behavior“GPTBot runs 1.29x hotter on weekends, while OAI-SearchBot shows a 1.41x weekend lift.”
When AI Comes to Your Website - Trakkr Research · GPTBot and SearchBot both show weekend lift
When AI Comes to Your Website · Trakkr Research · Updated 1 February 2026