Edition #2 – April 2026: AI Bot Insights

Last month, we launched our new series. Today marks the second edition, with fresh data on bot activity across publisher sites in the DACH region, aggregated from our platform. What you'll find in the April edition:

🔍 Which bot categories are most active → SEO & Optimization dominates at 37.4%, followed by Search & Indexing (15.8%) and AI Search & Answer Engines (13.2%)

🤖 Which AI bots generate the most traffic → GPTBot leads the ranking, closely followed by Claude-Bot and Amazonbot

🌍 Where bot traffic originates → The US is by far the largest source, followed by France, the UK, and Germany

🚫 How many publishers are actively blocking AI crawlers → More than 65% of publishers are already blocking CCBot and GPTBot via robots.txt

Bot traffic has long had a direct impact on reach, monetization, infrastructure costs, and content strategies — and is still widely underestimated.

At Content Bridge, we're building the infrastructure between publishers and AI providers. Publishers can outsource their bot management to our platform and prepare their sites for scalable content licensing.