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  "id": "anthropic-70900-crawls-per-referral-cloudflare",
  "slug": "anthropic-70900-crawls-per-referral-cloudflare",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/anthropic-70900-crawls-per-referral-cloudflare/",
  "api_url": "https://groundedkit.com/api/claims/anthropic-70900-crawls-per-referral-cloudflare.json",
  "claim": "AI platforms crawl far more than they refer: Anthropic made about 70,900 page requests per referral (Cloudflare)",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"AI bots crawl thousands of pages for every visitor they send\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Cloudflare Blog",
    "title": "The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI's impact on content providers (2025)",
    "year": "2025"
  },
  "quote": "the ratios range from Anthropic's 70,900:1 down to Mistral's 0.1:1. This means that Anthropic's AI platform Claude made nearly 71,000 HTML page requests for every HTML page referral",
  "method": "Cloudflare network data: HTML page requests by each platform's crawlers vs referrals from its hostnames, normalized to one referral.",
  "drift": [
    "Date: a one-week example; ratios change over time",
    "Scope: Cloudflare's network only"
  ],
  "interest": "Cloudflare sells bot management and pay-per-crawl tools.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Cloudflare's data for June 19–26, 2025 showed crawl-to-referral ratios ranging from about 70,900:1 for Anthropic down to 0.1:1 for Mistral; ratios vary week to week.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Cloudflare Blog — AI crawl-to-referral ratios",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-crawl-refer-ratio-on-radar/",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "stat_check",
  "as_of": "Example period June 19–26, 2025",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}