Zero visits in January. Over half the market by September.

A brand new AI assistant grabbed over half the visits. Last year's leader slid all the way to fourth.

Written by Miles Foster, Owner and tester, RankDude.1 November 2026 / 2 min read

OpenClaw had zero visits from Google in RankDude data until February 2026. By September, it got 53.9% of all AI personal assistant visits, while the market more than tripled. The strange part? Searches for its name crashed, yet its visits kept climbing.

The short version

OpenClaw: zero visits before February, now 53.9% of all visits.
+233.9%: AI assistant visits from Google in one year.
74,000: OpenClaw US name searches in September, down from 1 million.
Motion: last year's leader, down 70.7%, now fourth.

WorldAI assistant visits from Google

Low 362KHigh 1.4MAverage 683K

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Estimated monthly visits from Google, worldwide. Source: RankDude analysis of DataForSEO data.

A record month

AI personal assistant sites got about 1.4 million visits from Google in September.

A year earlier, they got about 421,000. That's more than three times as many.

September also beat August by 24.7%. It's the highest month in my data.

So who brought all those new visitors?

The new kid

Meet OpenClaw. It had zero visits in my data until February 2026.

In September, it got about 758,000 visits. That's 53.9% of the whole market.

It brought in nearly 77% of the year's growth on its own.

Take it away, and the market still grew 54%. So others grew too.

But OpenClaw has a strange secret.

Fewer searches, more visits

In February and March, Americans searched its name about 1 million times a month.

In September? About 74,000. The buzz cooled down a lot.

Yet its visits from Google kept climbing. That's wild.

My guess? People now find it through other searches, not just its name. I can't prove that here.

The numbers

All AI assistant sitesin 12 months: +233.9%
OpenClaw's share of visitsin September: 53.9%
Motion in a yearlast year's leader: -70.7%

The fallen king

A year ago, Motion got about 287,000 of those 421,000 visits.

That's about 7 in 10 visits. Nobody else came close.

Now Motion gets about 84,000. That's down 70.7% in a year.

It's now fourth, behind OpenClaw, Sai by Simular and Poke.

So who's climbing fastest right now?

The fast climbers

Sai by Simular had about 1,500 visits in October 2025.

In September, it had about 199,000. It grew 61.1% in just one month.

Fyxer went from about 5,700 visits to about 63,000 in a year.

Not everyone is winning. Shortwave fell 92.6% in a year, to about 1,200 visits.

You can follow every month on my AI personal assistant statistics page.

“The market tripled. Motion somehow got smaller. That's a rough year.”
Miles Foster

How I measured this

Visits are DataForSEO estimates of visits from Google search, worldwide. They are estimates, not people. More in my methodology and on the DataForSEO page.

Source: RankDude analysis of DataForSEO data, September 2026.

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Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude. Miles Foster owns RankDude and runs every hands-on test in person: one written procedure per category, the same sample sizes and scoring for every tool in it, with the measurements and screenshots published on each review's full test results.