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
- -34%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- -36%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 14 AI agent for websites sites I track (DataForSEO estimates) and how often people in the US search for them by name (Google Ads). In October 2026 they got about 494,274 visits. YourGPT gained more visits in October 2026 (27,829) than the whole market did (14,988); without it, visits to the other sites fell 3.1% on September 2026.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 283% 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 November 2026.
AI agent for websites market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 14 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google494Kvisits-32% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US11.7Ksearches-36% vs October 2025
- Top five sites71.4%of visitsfastest grower: YourGPT
- Expected in November492Kvisitslikely 413K to 571K
- The AI agent for websites market is shrinking as of October 2026.
- The 14 AI agent for websites sites RankDude tracks got 494,274 visits from Google search in October 2026, 32% fewer visits than in October 2025.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 11,650 times in September 2026, 36% fewer searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI agent for websites sites get 71.4% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI agent for websites site over the year: YourGPT, +283% (24.6K to 94.1K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Richpanel, -71% (9.8K to 2.8K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 492K visits, likely between 413K and 571K.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 1 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI agent for websites sites than a year ago?
Down 32% on a year ago; up 3% on September 2026
No. The 14 tracked AI agent for websites sites got 494,274 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 32% fewer visits than in October 2025, and 3% more visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was December 2024, with 1,067,526 visits; October 2026 is 54% below it. In the US, visits were 90,889, down 45% 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
494K
-31.8% on a year ago
United States, this month
90.9K
-44.8% on a year ago
Two-year high
1.1M
December 2024
US share of visits
18.4%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago, but the fall looks like it has stopped: October 2026 was up on September 2026. Name searches (-36%) 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 36% on October 2025; 11.7K 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 11,650 times in September 2026, 36% 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 71.4% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 95.3%
The five most-visited AI agent for websites sites get 71.4% 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 24,583 to 94,095 visits (+283%). Steepest fall: Richpanel, from 9,774 to 2,825 visits (-71%).
Growing fastest, year on year
YourGPT94.1K visits+283%
Wonderchat18.5K visits+201%
Chatling31.3K visits+107%
Falling fastest, year on year
- Richpanel2.8K visits-71%
- Crisp32.5K visits-65%
- Tidio73.3K visits-62%
- SiteGPT20.6K visits-57%
- Chatbase36.6K visits-52%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.