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Assertion Supported
ChatGPT traffic grew 13% month-over-month while other top websites declined
“If you look at the traffic change month over month, Google, at YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, all going down. ChatGPT up, 13% month over month. Then everything else that follows, X, WhatsApp, Wikipedia, Reddit, Yahoo Japan, All going down. And so, ChatGPT stand…”
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT hit 3.7B monthly visits in late 2024, dusting Bing
“Bing had 1.5 billion per month in February, 20, 24. It had all of 1.85 billion per month in October, 20, 24. You look at ChatGPT starts with 1.6 billion and now it has 3.7 billion per month. So it's left Bing in the dust. And by God, I mean, the rest that you …”
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Kantrowitz: DeepSeek overnight captured one-third of ChatGPT's daily traffic
“You see last week, so January, 28th, chat GPT at 139.3 web and mobile visits. Deep seek at 49 million. So it cut About, like, further than any other company has been able to cut into the lead of OpenAI, and it had about a third of the traffic that ChatGPT took…”
Assertion Contradicted
Kantrowitz: Organic Search Web Traffic Fell 55% From 2022 to 2025
“Organic search traffic to websites declined by 55% between April, twenty-twenty-two and April, twenty-twenty-five, according to data from the company SimilarWeb.”
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Kantrowitz: SimilarWeb Data Shows Gemini at 10.9M and DeepSeek at 16.5M Daily Visits
“Google's Gemini web traffic grew to 10.9 million average daily visits worldwide in March. That's up seven, four, 7.4% month over month, while daily visits to Copilot, that's Microsoft's bot, Increased to 2.4 million, up 2.1% from February. SimilarWeb also says…”
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Kantrowitz: ChatGPT web traffic flatlined for a year starting early 2023
“ChatGPT had been flatlining. The growth had just completely stopped. So you see a very, very quick run up to a hundred million Monthly users or on the chart that we're looking at now from similar web, they're measuring web traffic. So about two billion visits …”