Mintlify open-sources agent-traffic: agents made 489M doc requests, 77% of all traffic
handotdev · x · 2026-11-11
Mintlify open-sourced agent-traffic, the dataset and classifier it uses to tell which agent, crawler, or human is behind every request. The data shows agents taking over web reading:
- 489M agent requests to Mintlify-hosted docs last month, an agent share of 77.68%, vs 46M human visits
- Agent readership grew 7.7x from February to August, while humans grew only 1.2x
- Agent traffic dips just 9% on weekends (humans drop 34%); agents stay milliseconds (humans average 4m19s)
- Human traffic clusters in cities; agent traffic clusters in datacenters — VA, CA, and OR dominate
- Industry leaderboard: fintech & payments sites now see 70% agent traffic, crypto/web3 62.5%
Developers can use the classifier to distinguish agent vs human traffic on their own doc sites.
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