Confirmed:<\/strong><\/p>\n Not established:<\/strong><\/p>\n These distinctions matter in an audit. Review the available crawl, index, freshness and structural information, and keep it separate from any claimed citation.<\/p>\n Use the query-volume comparison as context rather than as a website traffic measure. Keep traffic, page visits and actions as separate audit items.<\/p>\n Check whether brands ranking on Google also appear in ChatGPT<\/a>, then record traditional search visibility and AI-answer visibility separately.<\/p>\n Pew Research Center provides supporting context from a different measure. According to Pew Research Center’s June 17, 2026 report<\/a>, based on a survey of 5,119 U.S. adults conducted Feb. 17 through Feb. 23, 42% of adults had used AI to search for information. The survey also found that 49% had used AI chatbots, up from 33% in 2024. These results describe reported use, not the volume of search-like queries processed by ChatGPT.<\/p>\n Google’s position adds another boundary. Review the Google guidance on generative search visibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fry identified people, places, things, finance and health as examples of searches that require up-to-date information. Start with whether search systems can access the page, then examine whether the page states what it covers, when it was reviewed and where its factual claims come from.<\/p>\n The checks below are audit and interpretation practices.<\/p>\n OpenAI’s crawler documentation gives one concrete access check. It recommends allowing OAI-SearchBot in the site’s robots.txt file to help ensure the site appears in search results. Its documentation says a site that opts out of OAI-SearchBot will not be shown in ChatGPT search answers, though it may still appear as a navigational link. The documentation also says changes to robots.txt may take about 24 hours to take effect in its systems.<\/p>\n SEOScanPro’s full technical audit<\/a> can report measured on-page and technical findings. Manual review is still needed to decide whether a date is meaningful, whether a source supports a claim and whether an answer passage fully addresses the user’s question.<\/p>\n Use the reported growth to add a defined AI-visibility check to the audit, while keeping the result separate from traffic and ranking reports.<\/p>\n The primary account is Adam Fry’s Nov. 3, 2026 conversation with Alex Kantrowitz, published by Big Technology. It records the 20% comparison, the weekly-active-user figure, OpenAI’s definition of a search and Fry’s examples of query categories.<\/p>\n The currentness context comes from Pew Research Center’s June 17, 2026 report, which surveyed 5,119 U.S. adults from Feb. 17 through Feb. 23, 2026. Crawler guidance comes from OpenAI’s developer documentation for OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot and ChatGPT-User. The audit interpretation in this article is analysis for website owners, not an OpenAI or Google directive.<\/p>\n OpenAI consumer product lead Adam Fry said ChatGPT’s volume of search-like queries was roughly one-fifth the volume of queries on Google.<\/p>\n According to Fry, ChatGPT had grown from 1 billion to 1.2 billion weekly active users over two months, adding about 100 million users in each 30-day period.<\/p>\n OpenAI counts a search when a user asks ChatGPT a question and the system performs a web search. Fry said this commonly occurs for questions about people, places and things, as well as finance and health questions that require current information.<\/p>\n SEOScanPro runs a full technical audit of a site and shows the measured result behind every check. Open the AI visibility report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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