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ChatGPT just became a traffic channel.

And right now, almost nobody is measuring it.

What changed on May 7, 2026

For two years, ChatGPT answered your questions but kept everyone inside the chat.

Then it started putting clickable links right inside its answers.

Now when ChatGPT recommends "the best" of anything, those brands are one tap away.

someone asks best running shoes? ChatGPT › nike.com › adidas.com › asics.com nike.com you adidas.com rival asics.com rival
One answer, three winners. The question is whether one of them is you.

Why that's a big deal

Referral traffic from ChatGPT to websites roughly doubled within weeks.

It went from a curiosity to a real source of visitors, almost overnight.

When someone asks ChatGPT what to buy, the brands it names get the click. The ones it skips don't.

But there's no dashboard for it

Google gives you Search Console. ChatGPT gives you nothing.

You can't see which prompts send traffic, or who ChatGPT is recommending instead of you.

So your fastest-growing channel is also your biggest blind spot.

So we estimate it, carefully

We take real Google demand for each topic and scale it to ChatGPT's smaller audience.

Then we run the prompts through ChatGPT and record which websites it recommends, and in what order.

Yes, it's an estimate. We're upfront about that.

But it's a grounded one, built on real search demand and real ChatGPT answers, and it's the clearest view available of who's winning AI recommendations.

See exactly how we estimate →

It belongs in your marketing stack

You already track your rank on Google. You watch your ads, your social, your email.

ChatGPT is the newest channel, and most teams are flying completely blind on it.

This is how you see it: where you rank, where your competitors rank, and which topics are quietly sending them traffic you're missing.

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Four channels you already measure. One you probably don't, yet.

See where you and your competitors stand.

It's an estimate, but the most useful one you'll find for AI search.