If SEO has ever felt like hosting a party and hoping the right people show up… congrats, you’ve now got a whole new type of guest. AI crawlers. And they’re not just “stopping by.” Duda looked at 858,457 sites and saw 68.9M AI crawler visits in Feb 2026, with 59% of sites getting crawled. The wild part: a big chunk of this activity looks less like classic indexing and more like real-time “user fetch” (the kind of quick grab used to back up AI answers), and ChatGPT is doing a l