Who is knocking at the digital door?
If you have a website, you probably think your visitors are only people. In reality, almost half of internet traffic is generated by AI bots. Some come to help you appear in search results. Others come only to "learn" from your texts in order to train programs such as ChatGPT. At Altanet Craiova, we analyse our partners' traffic every day. We have prepared a simple list of the 10 most important non-human visitors you need to know in 2025.
The 3 big giants (the traffic leaders)
These are the "bosses" of the internet. They are vital for your business and must be allowed in at any time.
- 1. Googlebot: The most important one. It decides what position you get on Google. Without it, your website is invisible.
- 2. Bingbot: Microsoft's bot. It has become much smarter since it was linked to the Copilot AI system.
- 3. GPTBot: The bot from OpenAI (the creators of ChatGPT). It reads your website so it can answer its users' questions. If you block it, ChatGPT will know nothing about you.
AI bots specialised in answers (newcomers)
Here things get interesting. These AI bots don't necessarily want to send you traffic, but to give their users quick answers.
- 4. ClaudeBot: Belongs to Anthropic. It is a very polite bot that respects the rules, but scans intensively to understand complex contexts.
- 5. PerplexityBot: A name encountered more and more often in 2025. Perplexity is an "answer engine". It reads your website and gives users summaries, citing the source.
- 6. Applebot: Used by Siri and the new Apple intelligence. If you want iPhone users to find you by voice, this bot is your friend.
- 7. Amazonbot: The bot behind the Alexa assistant. It scans the internet to find the information that Alexa gives users when they ask voice questions.
Specific and infrastructure bots
There are also less well-known but very active bots. Sometimes these can slow down your website if they are not managed properly.
- 8. CCBot (Common Crawl): This is a huge 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 bot of the company that owns TikTok. It is very aggressive and fast, looking for viral content and data on user behaviour.
- 10. Google-NotebookLM: The newest member, which we discussed recently. It only comes when a user calls it to make a summary.
How do you manage this army of bots?
You don't need to be scared of this list. Most of these bots are harmless. Still, if you have a small server, their simultaneous visits can make the website run slowly. This is where we step in.
If you feel your website loads slowly, or if you want to decide who is allowed to take your data, see our online web marketing services page. We can set up a "digital doorman" (the robots.txt file) that lets in only the bots that bring you profit.
Conclusion
The digital world of 2025 is crowded. Knowing the difference between a useful bot (like Googlebot) and one that only consumes resources (like Bytespider) is essential. Our team is here to help you put your traffic in order.
Do you have questions about your website's visitors? Visit the contact page and let's check your server logs together.