How much traffic do AI assistants send to new startups?
Measured on every launch page on Aback Launch over the last 90 days. Updated daily.
We have 72 page views in the window so far. We publish findings from 500 views, so the numbers below are a preview, not a result yet.
Which assistants send the visits
Share of AI assistant visits, by the assistant's site.
1 of 34 launch pages got at least one AI visit
Among the 0 launch pages with at least 30 views, the median share from AI assistants was 0%. A launch page that is complete (a one-line definition, facts and an FAQ) gives assistants something to quote.
AI share by month
| Month | Page views | From AI | AI share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10 | 72 | 1 | 1.4% |
The first and last months are partial: the window is the last 90 days.
How we measure
- Every view of a launch page on abacklaunch.com is recorded with its source, read from the referrer. Bots and crawlers are excluded.
- A view counts as from an AI assistant when the visitor arrived from an assistant's site (chatgpt.com, perplexity.ai, claude.ai, gemini.google.com, copilot.microsoft.com and others).
- Assistants that open links without a referrer show up as direct traffic, so the AI share is a floor, not a ceiling.
- We keep analytics for 90 days, so the study always covers the latest 90 days. No single launch's numbers are published.
Cite as: Aback Launch, “How much traffic do AI assistants send to new startups?”, updated 2026-10-26, https://abacklaunch.com/research/ai-traffic. The data is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.