Top 10 AI bots visiting your website in 2025: friends or intruders?

Who's knocking on your digital door?
If you have a website, you probably think your visitors are just humans. In reality, almost half of all internet traffic is generated by AI robots. Some come to help you appear in searches. Others come just to "learn" from your texts to train programs like ChatGPT. At Altanet Craiova, we analyze our partners' traffic daily. We've prepared a simple list of the 10 most important non-human visitors you need to know in 2025.

The 3 big giants (traffic leaders)

These are the "bosses" of the internet. They are vital to your business and should be allowed in at all times.

• 1. Googlebot: It is the most important. It decides where you appear in Google. Without it, your site is invisible.
• 2. Bingbot: Microsoft's robot. It has become much smarter since it is linked to the Copilot AI system.
• 3. GPTBot: The robot from OpenAI (the creators of ChatGPT). It reads your website to answer questions from its users. If you block it, ChatGPT will know nothing about you.

AI robots specializing in answers (newcomers)

This is where things get interesting. These AI bots don't necessarily want to send you traffic, they want to provide their users with quick answers.

• 4. ClaudeBot: It belongs to the company Anthropic. It is a very polite robot that follows the rules, but scans intensively to understand complex contexts.
• 5. Perplexity Not: An increasingly common name in 2025. Perplexity is an “answer engine.” It reads your site and provides summaries to users, citing the source.
• 6. Applebot: Powered by Siri and Apple's new intelligence. If you want iPhone users to find you by voice, this robot is your friend.
• 7. Amazonbot: The robot behind the Alexa assistant. It scans the internet to find information that Alexa provides to users when they ask voice questions.

Specific and infrastructure robots

There are also lesser-known but very active bots. Sometimes, they can make your site difficult if they are not managed properly.

• 8. CCBot (Common Crawl): This is a giant data "vacuum cleaner". It copies the entire internet and provides the data to researchers. Many AI systems learn from the data it collects.
• 9. Bytespider: The robot from the company that owns TikTok. It is very aggressive and fast, searching for viral content and data on user behavior.
• 10. Google NotebookLM: The newest member, which we discussed recently. It only comes when called upon by a user to make a summary.

How do you manage this army of robots?

You don't need to be scared by this list. Most of these bots are harmless. However, if you have a small server, their simultaneous visits can make your site slow. This is where we come in.

If you feel like your site is loading slowly or if you want to decide who is allowed to retrieve your data, check out our servicii online web marketing page. We can set up a "digital gatekeeper" (robots.txt file) that only lets in robots that bring you profit.

Conclusion

The digital world of 2025 is crowded. Knowing the difference between a useful bot (like Googlebot) and one that just consumes resources (like Bytespider) is essential. Our team is here to help you sort out the traffic.

Do you have questions about your site's visitors? Go to the contact page and let's check your server logs together.