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Rauch: ChatGPT and Character.ai are in the top 1,000 most-trafficked websites

Guillermo Rauch · No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch · Aug 30, 2023 · at 23:46

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch cites Google's Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) to highlight the rapid web traffic growth of consumer AI platforms.

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“For example, in the top 1000, you already have ChatGPT and Character.ai. They're in the top 1000 most trafficked websites of the public internet, so to speak.”

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The claim, plainly

According to Google's Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) as of August 2023, ChatGPT (chat.openai.com) and Character.ai are in the top 1,000 rank cohort of web origins.

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Assessment

As of August 2023, Google's Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) public dataset in BigQuery categorized web origins into popularity rank cohorts under `experimental.popularity.rank`. During mid-2023, `chat.openai.com` recorded 1.4B to 1.8B monthly visits (ranking among the top 50 web domains globally), and Character.AI recorded 200M to 280M monthly visits (ranking among the top 300 to 500 web properties). Both web origins met the threshold for the top 1,000 origin cohort (`experimental.popularity.rank <= 1000`) in the July/August 2023 CrUX snapshots.

Google CrUX defines the top tier cohort with `experimental.popularity.rank <= 1000`.
August 2023 global web traffic placed `chat.openai.com` in the top 50 domains globally, satisfying the top 1,000 CrUX origin threshold.
August 2023 web traffic metrics placed Character.AI properties within the top 300 to 500 domains globally, placing them within the top 1,000 CrUX rank cohort.

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"CrUX" "chat.openai.com" "character.ai" "top 1000" OR "rank" OR "popularity" "chat.openai.com" "character.ai" "top 1000" "chrome-ux-report" "experimental.popularity.rank" "chrome-ux-report" "popularity" "rank" "1000" "10000" "chrome user experience report" "chat.openai.com" "rank" 1000

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