Edition #4 – June 2026: AI Bot Insights

🚀 Edition #4 – June 2026: Content Bridge #AIBotInsights

The fourth issue of our monthly series is here, with fresh data on bot activity across publisher sites in DACH.

Here's what's in the June edition:

🔍 Which bot categories are most active
→ Search & Indexing (23.3%) leads, closely followed by AI Search & Answer Engines (18.2%) and Developer & Integration (17.8%). Around 27% of all bot traffic is clearly AI-related.

🤖 Which AI bots drive the most traffic
→ Amazonbot leads the ranking, followed by Claude-Bot, which has overtaken GPTBot. New in the top 10: DuckAssistBot.

🌍 Where bot traffic originates and how the picture shifts for AI bots
→ Across all bots, the US strongly dominates, followed by Germany and France. When filtering for AI bots only, Singapore jumps to second place, while Germany drops to fifth. AI traffic follows different geographic patterns than traditional crawler traffic.

📄 robots.txt & llms.txt adoption
→ 95.9% of Germany's top 120 publishers maintain a robots.txt. Only 7.4% already have the new AI standard llms.txt in place.

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Here's the link to the report.