The historical charts below compare crawl requests with detectable referrals. They do not count citations in AI answers. See Cloudflare’s 2025 crawl-to-refer methodology.
Interpret the ratio correctly
The provider-level metric compares HTML crawl requests identified through user-agent headers with HTML referrals identified through referrer headers. A provider can have several agents. It is incorrect to assign the whole ratio to one bot or say a crawler “references your site” a fixed number of times before sending a visitor.
The values describe a historical network sample, not a promise for an individual website. Missing referrers and classification limits affect what can be observed.
Use your own request, referral, and conversion data alongside controlled answer tests. A high crawl count does not establish frequent citations or business value. Read the metrics guide.
