OpenAI Search Crawler Passes 55% Coverage In Hostinger Study

January 20, 2026

OpenAI Search Crawler Passes 55% Coverage In Hostinger Study

Hostinger analyzed 66 billion bot requests across more than 5 million websites and found that AI crawlers are following two different paths. LLM training bots are losing access to the web as more sites block them. Meanwhile, AI assistant bots that power search tools like ChatGPT are expanding their reach. The analysis draws on anonymized

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