Entry #7 — Mar 17, 2026
We changed one page. PerplexityBot went from 42 requests to 511.
Key findings
- PerplexityBot made 511 requests (Mar 10–17). This figure is up from 42 in the prior week.
- PerplexityBot crawled 172 Q&A pages. PerplexityBot crawled 256 GEO pages. The 256 GEO pages constitute 84% of content.
- PerplexityBot swept the topic taxonomy twice. The sweeps occurred on March 15 and March 17.
- OpenAI SearchBot made 328 requests. This figure is up from about 75.
- Combined index traffic for PerplexityBot and SearchBot totaled 839 requests. This amount equals 71% of ChatGPT-User citation volume.
- ChatGPT-User made 1,176 requests. This value is stable.
- ClaudeBot made 123 requests. ClaudeBot recorded 0 Q&A pages. Claude-SearchBot traffic was 0.
The data
All LLM bots (Mar 10–17, 2026)
| Bot | Requests | Category | Change vs. prior week | |---|---:|---:|---:| | ChatGPT-User | 1,176 | Citation | Stable (~1,200) | | PerplexityBot | 511 | Search index | 12x (was 42) | | OpenAI SearchBot | 328 | Search index | 4x (was ~75) | | OpenAI GPTBot | 171 | Training | Moderate growth | | ClaudeBot | 123 | Training | Down from 505 | | CCBot | 100 | Training | Stable | | ByteSpider | 69 | Training | Down | | Meta AI | 52 | Training | Stable |
PerplexityBot content breakdown
| Content type | Requests | % | |---|---:|---:| | GEO Pages | 256 | 50.1% | | Q&A Pages | 172 | 33.7% | | Topic Pages + Other | 61 | 11.9% | | Robots.txt | 12 | 2.3% | | Homepage | 4 | 0.8% |
84% of PerplexityBot’s requests hit content pages. PerplexityBot skipped the homepage almost entirely. It went straight to the content.
What we changed
- On March 9, we redesigned the AI site’s index page at rozz.genymotion.com.
- The old index was an infrastructure page. It listed API endpoints, content counts, and navigation links.
- The old index told a human reader “here’s 177 Q&A pages and 450 GEO pages, here’s how to browse them.”
- AI crawlers do not use JSON APIs. They GET HTML pages.
- When a bot landed on the old index, it received content describing the site’s architecture without signaling what Genymotion actually is or which content to read first.
- In Entry #6, we identified this problem. ChatGPT-User sessions that hit the index ended without useful signals.
- The new index opens with a product description: what Genymotion is, what it does, who uses it.
- The new index includes a topic directory with inline summaries for each topic.
- The topic directory provides context about pricing tiers, free personal use, SaaS vs Desktop costs, and plan differences.
- The new index provides signal for a crawler to answer a query from the index itself or to fetch the next page.
What PerplexityBot did after the change
Day 1: March 10, content burst
- The day after the index revamp, PerplexityBot ran a content crawl at 21:03 UTC.
- 50+ pages were crawled in under 20 seconds. The crawl included GEO pages and Q&A pages.
- ARM transition content, Android 16 pages, pricing, installation, virtualization, case studies, and release notes were crawled.
- The crawl came from eight different IP addresses running in parallel.
- This event was the first time PerplexityBot crawled more than four pages in a single session on the AI site.
Day 5: March 14, Q&A deep dive
- PerplexityBot returned at 21:02 UTC and crawled 40+ Q&A pages in a single burst.
- The crawl occurred at a rate of one page every 1–2 seconds.
- The questions captured included pricing, installation, compatibility, and product questions such as 50 concurrent devices, license keys, and online vs download.
Day 6: March 15, topic sweeps + GEO content
- Two sessions occurred at 21:21 and 22:59.
- PerplexityBot swept 14 topic pages in rapid succession. The pages listed content for topics such as android-development-toolkit, ci-cd-toolchain, cloud-platform-ecosystem, hypervisor-platforms, licensing-eula, saas-paas-tools, and more.
- At 22:59, PerplexityBot returned for more GEO pages, including ARM webinar recordings, CircleCI integration, mobile testing, VPN setup, proxy configuration, biometric authentication, Bitrise CI, Applitools visual testing.
Day 8: March 17, second topic sweep
- A second topic sweep occurred at 07:13.
- The sweep covered topics including genymotion-virtual-devices, gpu-arm-hardware, technical-support-troubleshooting, android-testing-stack, network-system-security, marketplace-cloud-providers.
PerplexityBot reads the map and the pages
- PerplexityBot is the second bot observed to sweep topic pages systematically.
- ClaudeBot performed a topic sweep first, on March 2, in five minutes and swept 13 topic pages.
- The difference is that PerplexityBot performed the topic sweep and the content deep dive.
- PerplexityBot read the map and then read the chapters.
- ClaudeBot read the map and stopped.
The bots comparison on content type distribution this week
| Bot | GEO Pages | Q&A Pages | Topic/Other | Homepage | |---|---:|---:|---:|---:| | PerplexityBot | 50% | 34% | 12% | 1% | | OpenAI SearchBot | 45% | 24% | 16% | 3% | | ChatGPT-User | 9% | 34% | 20% | 37% | | ClaudeBot | 1% | 0% | 64% | 5% |
PerplexityBot and OpenAI SearchBot share a similar profile: content-heavy, minimal discovery overhead. Both are index bots. Both skip the homepage and go straight to content pages.
ChatGPT-User has a different pattern. The homepage serves as a discovery hub for 37% of requests, then the crawler drills into Q&A pages (34%). This pattern makes sense because ChatGPT-User operates during live conversations and needs a starting point.
ClaudeBot is in a category of its own. 64% of ClaudeBot’s requests are robots.txt, sitemaps, and topic pages. 0% Q&A. 1% GEO content. ClaudeBot is still in discovery mode.
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ROZZ builds this infrastructure automatically. AI site markup is included. Q&A pages from a chatbot are included. Schema.org markup is applied on every page. Topic taxonomy is optimized for index bots.
Data source
Data source: CloudFront access logs for rozz.genymotion.com, March 10–17, 2026. Bot classification is based on User-Agent strings. ChatGPT session analysis is performed via IP subnet and edge clustering from ChatGPT-User/1.0 log entries.
Author
Adrien Schmidt, CEO, ROZZ. Adrien Schmidt is a serial tech entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience building AI systems, including Aristotle (conversational AI analytics) and products for eBay and Cartier. He previously founded Squid Solutions and built AI products like Aristotle, the conversational big data analytics chatbot, and an AR jewelry try-on device for Cartier.
March 17, 2026 | Data period: Mar 10–17, 2026