Is the AI agent for websites market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▼ Shrinking
- Visits, year on year
- -32%
- Visits, last six months
- -47%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- -37%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 13 AI agent for websites sites I track (DataForSEO estimates) and how often people in the US search for them by name (Google Ads). In September 2026 they got about 478,626 visits.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 217% in a year while another lost 71% of its visits. See who grew and who shrank, the visits month by month and the name searches, plus what I expect for October 2026.
AI agent for websites market demand: key numbers, September 2026
Four numbers for September 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 13 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google479Kvisits-32% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US11.4Ksearches-37% vs October 2025
- Top five sites75.3%of visitsfastest grower: YourGPT
- Expected in October479Kvisitslikely 392K to 565K
- The AI agent for websites market is shrinking as of September 2026.
- The 13 AI agent for websites sites RankDude tracks got 478,626 visits from Google search in September 2026, 32% fewer visits than in September 2025.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 11,390 times in September 2026, 37% fewer searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI agent for websites sites get 75.3% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI agent for websites site over the year: YourGPT, +217% (20.9K to 66.3K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Richpanel, -71% (10.2K to 3.0K visits a month).
- Forecast for October 2026: about 479K visits, likely between 392K and 565K.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 15 October 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI agent for websites sites than a year ago?
Down 32% on a year ago; about level with August 2026 (+1%)
No. The 13 tracked AI agent for websites sites got 478,626 visits from Google search in September 2026. That is 32% fewer visits than in September 2025, and about the same as in August 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was October 2024, with 1,711,666 visits; September 2026 is 72% below it. In the US, visits were 100,748, down 35% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI agent for websites sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
479K
-32.4% on a year ago
United States, this month
101K
-35.0% on a year ago
Two-year high
1.7M
October 2024
US share of visits
21%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago, but the fall looks like it has stopped: September 2026 was level on August 2026. Name searches (-37%) and Google Trends interest in the term (-47%) fell too, so people are less interested, not just finding these sites less often.
2.Are people searching for AI agent for websites sites by name?
Down 37% on October 2025; 11.4K name searches a month in the US
Fewer than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI agent for websites sites 11,390 times in September 2026, 37% fewer searches than in October 2025. Someone who searches a site’s name already knows it, so this is the clearest sign of people coming back on purpose. The term “ai agents for websites” itself gets about 70 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI agent for websites sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI agent for websites sites by name, searches a month
Tidio3.6K a month
Chatbase2.9K a month
Richpanel1.3K a month
eDesk880 a month
Crisp590 a month
SiteGPT590 a month
Miles explains
Name searches are down, so fewer people are coming back on purpose. Better Google rankings will not fix that.
3.Which AI agent for websites sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 75.3% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 95.5%
The five most-visited AI agent for websites sites get 75.3% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: YourGPT, from 20,900 to 66,266 visits (+217%). Steepest fall: Richpanel, from 10,213 to 2,950 visits (-71%).
Growing fastest, year on year
YourGPT66.3K visits+217%
Chatling21.3K visits+69%
Falling fastest, year on year
- Richpanel3.0K visits-71%
- Crisp30.6K visits-65%
- Tidio72.4K visits-60%
- SiteGPT21.1K visits-59%
- eDesk18.0K visits-46%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.