Everyone's writing think-pieces about "optimizing for AI search. " I wanted numbers. So I pulled together the 2025-2026 data from Cloudflare, Vercel/MERJ, Ahrefs and the AI providers' own docs.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/garvit_sharda/the-2026-ai-crawler-reality-check-what-the-data-says-for-developers-oh6)