Fanelli: Anthropic scrapes 6,000 pages per referral, compared to OpenAI's 250
Alessio Fanelli · Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes · Apr 24, 2025 · at 50:01
Alessio Fanelli relays web scraping and referral traffic figures shared by Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince.
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“Google would be a two to one crawl to referral ratio, so for every two pages, they will read, they will send you one visitor. He said OpenAI is 250 to one, so they'll read 250 of your pages and send you one person. And Anthropic was like 6000 to one. So they'll read 6000 pages before they send one person back to your website”
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