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for the agent web.

What changed in AI crawlers and agentic browsers this month, what our audit engine measures and why, and what we are seeing when we scan the top of the SaaS web. Evidence over marketing.

Featured · May 31, 2026
Fig — Crawl coverage by user-agent, Feb 2026
Field Notes·May 31, 2026·10 min read

A Field Guide to AI Traffic

AI traffic is now one of the largest categories in many sites' logs — crawlers training models, readers fetching answers, and a new kind of agent that clicks and acts. A tour of who's visiting, what they want, and how anyone can tell them apart.

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AI UpdatesApr 24, 2026

Your Website Has New Visitors You Can’t See

What AI agents see when they read your site — and why Google Analytics won't show you. A practical look at the new readers your dashboards are missing, plus three checks you can run in 90 seconds.

Protal Research · 8 min read
AI UpdatesFeb 5, 2026

The Complete Guide to AI Crawlers and User Agents (February 2026)

A practical reference for every webmaster, SEO, and developer who wants to know which AI crawlers are reading their site, what they want, and how to control them — including the agentic browsers robots.txt can't reach.

Protal Research · 12 min read