The Optimly AI Search Trends Index · Week of July 19, 2026
Industrial / Manufacturing is the category AI is pulling from most this week
ABB leads within Industrial / Manufacturing. 2 brands total in this category are drawing AI-search demand.
What a page visit is, and what it is not.
This index counts page visits: an automated agent asked optimly.ai for a page, and our server logged it. That is all a page visit shows. It does not show that any AI product mentioned, cited, recommended, or sold a brand, and it does not show that a person asked a question. Where we cannot tell why a visit happened, we say we do not know. How we group visits →
Window: 2026-07-19 → 2026-07-26 · Published 2026-07-26
Which pages agents requested
Every number below counts page visits we observed in our own server logs: an automated agent asked optimly.ai for a specific page. A page visit records the request and nothing more. It does not show that any AI product mentioned, cited, recommended, or sold anything, and it does not show that a person asked a question.
Buyer questions AI resolved: AI consulted Optimly on 140 distinct buyer questions In the week of Week of July 19, 2026, automated agents requested 36 buyer-question pages across 140 distinct buyer questions — -99% versus the prior week.
Brand pages AI read: AI read 13714 brand pages this week In the week of Week of July 19, 2026, automated agents requested 41,026 brand pages across 13,714 distinct brands — 33% versus the prior week.
Brand records AI ingested: AI pulled 5190 structured brand records for its answers In the week of Week of July 19, 2026, automated agents requested 1,410 brand record pages across 5,190 distinct brands — -99% versus the prior week.
Brand delta reports AI pulled: AI pulled delta reports for 5296 distinct brands In the week of Week of July 19, 2026, automated agents requested 1,475 brand delta report pages across 5,296 distinct brands — -99% versus the prior week.
Category taxonomy pulls: AI mapped market structure across 4 taxonomy endpoints In the week of Week of July 19, 2026, automated agents requested 34 category pages across 4 distinct categories — -98% versus the prior week.
Topics of the pages agents requested most often
These are short topic labels we assign to our own pages, so we can group page visits that keep coming back week after week. The label is our grouping of the page. It is not a person's exact question, and we do not know what anyone typed. Counts run from the week we started grouping pages this way, so the list builds up over time rather than reshuffling every week.
Solution cluster
Cloud — 6 total (6 this week), first seen 2026-W30
Topic pages agents requested most this week
Each row is one of our own topic pages that an automated agent requested in the week of Week of July 19, 2026, ordered by how many times it was requested. The heading is the topic we assigned to the page. We do not know what any person typed, and a visit does not show that a person asked anything.
Cloud Computing
Requested 2 times this week, most often by AI Assistant (behavioral). Group: solution. Not seen in the prior week.
Modular Architectural Signage Systems
Requested 2 times this week, most often by AI Assistant (behavioral). Group: solution. Not seen in the prior week.
Cloud Machine Learning
Requested 2 times this week, most often by AI Assistant (behavioral). Group: solution. Not seen in the prior week.
Enterprise Asset Management Software for Manufacturing
Requested 2 times this week, most often by AI Assistant (behavioral). Group: solution. Not seen in the prior week.
Alternative to Openspaceai
Requested 2 times this week, most often by AI Assistant (behavioral). Group: evaluation. Not seen in the prior week.
Sovereign Cloud Providers Europe
Requested 2 times this week, most often by AI Assistant (behavioral). Group: solution. Not seen in the prior week.
Utility Customer Engagement
Requested 2 times this week, most often by AI Assistant (behavioral). Group: solution. Not seen in the prior week.
Global Managed Sd Wan
Requested 2 times this week, most often by AI Assistant (behavioral). Group: solution. Not seen in the prior week.
Managed Elasticsearch
Requested 2 times this week, most often by AI Assistant (behavioral). Group: solution. Not seen in the prior week.
Visual Search API for E Commerce
Requested 2 times this week, most often by AI Assistant (behavioral). Group: solution. Not seen in the prior week.
Cloud Infrastructure
Requested 2 times this week, most often by AI Assistant (behavioral). Group: solution. Not seen in the prior week.
Adp vs Gusto for Small Business
Requested 0 times this week, most often by unknown. Group: evaluation.
Run Docker Without Managing Servers
Requested 0 times this week, most often by unknown. Group: problem.
Employee Engagement
Requested 0 times this week, most often by unknown. Group: solution.
Venture Capital Firms Silicon Valley
Requested 0 times this week, most often by unknown. Group: solution.
Since we started measuring
This index started grouping pages by topic in 2026-W28. This week (Week of July 19, 2026) marks 3 archived weeks of continuous measurement. All counts labeled "total" or "lifetime" on this page are rolled up across every archived weekly report since inception; counts labeled "this week" are the week of Week of July 19, 2026 only.
Brands whose pages were requested far more this week
How to read a spike
A spike is a brand whose index moved sharply upward this week, meaning automated agents requested that brand's page far more often than the week before. We attach the top news headline for the brand from the past 7 days as a possible explanation. We do not know that the headline caused the change.
AI systems tried to fetch /brand/aws-azure-google-cloud-hyperscalers. A live signal of what people are asking AI about — and what AI thinks Optimly should answer.
Autonomous AI agents — not humans, not chatbots — are discovering Optimly through /mcp. Model Context Protocol traffic — autonomous AI agents (not humans) discovering Optimly through the MCP endpoint.
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Which agents requested pages from Optimly this week
80,994 visits from automated agents this week, a change of -88% against the prior week.
Why brand rows show an index, not a count
Brand-level values are shown on a 0 to 100 index relative to this week's busiest brand, the way Google Trends does it. 100 is the busiest brand this week and everything else is scaled from it. Exact per-brand counts stay private; only the rollups on this page (the week total and the per-agent totals) are absolute numbers.
Agents that fetch a page while a request is in flight
Agent
Page visits
Unique pages
Amazonbot
14,333
5,674
ChatGPT-User
8,238
1,482
AI Assistant (behavioral)
7,657
1,148
AI Search (behavioral)
4,919
3,011
ShapBot
4,432
684
Claude-User
1,872
23
OAI-SearchBot
1,486
641
DuckAssistBot
1,328
212
YouBot
1,077
215
PerplexityBot
748
312
Google-CloudVertexBot
297
171
xAI-SearchBot
273
147
Agents that collect page text in bulk
These agents collect page text to build a model rather than to answer a specific request, so no person is waiting on them. Listed for completeness, kept separate from the numbers above.
Bot
Fetches
Unique pages
GPTBot
19,108
10,000
AI Crawler (behavioral)
6,836
5,758
Bytespider
4,511
1,249
ClaudeBot
2,552
1,401
CCBot
536
253
Diffbot
116
10
anthropic-ai
106
11
Applebot-Extended
78
13
Benchmark — how AI is crawling the whole internet
Optimly's own numbers are a slice of a much bigger picture. Cloudflare Radar publishes AI-bot activity across roughly 20% of all internet traffic. Comparing our zone to Radar shows whether Optimly is over- or under-indexed vs. the network baseline.
Why Optimly's data is different
Radar covers every domain, every agent and every reason for a visit, and most of that is bulk collection of general content. This site is a brand directory built for machine readers, so the mix of agents that reach it looks different: more of the agents that fetch a page while a request is in flight, fewer of the ones collecting text in bulk. That is a fact about which agents arrive here, not evidence about what anyone asked.