character.ai received 160M monthly visits with traffic from 5 countries.
What happened
Emerging AI traffic at 1.2% (~1,888,617 visits). Top: chatgpt.com (78%), gemini.google.com (19%), chat.deepseek.com (2%), claude.ai (0%), grok.com (0%).
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- Traffic snapshot
What this signalsTraffic trends often track demand, marketing spend and growth.
- Monthly visits
- 159,672,786
- Month over month
- -3.7%
- 3-month change
- -5.4%
- Global rank
- 201
- Top country
- US (33%)
- Trend
- Consecutive decline
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The full record
From the Signal API recordNumbers
- Country rank
- 321
- Category rank
- 6
- Change, 3 months
- -5.4%
- Change, month over month
- -3.7%
- Digital health score
- 83
Details
- Measured month
- Aug 2026
- Category
- AI chatbots and tools
- Mail visits
- 958,037
- Traffic band
- Dominant
- Direct visits
- 114,804,733
- Search visits
- 23,950,918
- Small website
- No
- Snapshot date
- Aug 1, 2026
- Social visits
- 12,933,496
- Website title
- character.ai | AI Chat, Reimagined–Your Words. Your World.
- Brand strength
- Strong
- Referral visits
- 3,832,147
- AI traffic level
- Emerging
- AI traffic detail
- Emerging AI traffic at 1.2% (~1,888,617 visits). Top: chatgpt.com (78%), gemini.google.com (19%), chat.deepseek.com (2%), claude.ai (0%), grok.com (0%).
- Geo concentration
- Moderately concentrated
- Referral strength
- Weak
- Search dependency
- Low
- Consecutive months
- 3
- Engagement quality
- High
- Brand keyword ratio
- 1/5
- Website description
- Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?
- Country rank country
- US
- Digital health label
- Excellent
- Social traffic level
- Moderate
Extraction
- Detected
- Sep 11, 2026
- signal_type
seo-traffic- signal_subtype
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"What are the practical differences between using a custom-trained chatbot persona and a general-purpose conversational model for roleplay and creative storytelling?",
"Can you recommend strategies and example prompts for designing an engaging virtual character that responds naturally, stays in character, and handles unexpected user inputs?"
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"ai_traffic_level": "emerging",
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"geo_concentration": "moderately_concentrated",
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"brand_strength_detail": "Strong brand recognition with 72% direct traffic. Brand keyword ratio: 1/5.",
"digital_health_detail": "Score 83: Engagement 91/100 (25%), Volume 100/100 (20%), Brand 100/100 (15%), Diversification 60/100 (15%), Rank 100/100 (15%), AI Readiness 12/100 (10%).",
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"engagement_quality_score": 91,
"geo_concentration_detail": "Moderately concentrated traffic: US (33%), IN (6%), GB (5%).",
"referral_strength_detail": "Weak referral strength at 2% of traffic (~3,832,147 visits).",
"search_dependency_detail": "Low search dependency at 15% of total traffic.",
"engagement_quality_detail": "High engagement (91/100) with 37% bounce rate, 12.1 pages per visit, and 958-second average duration."
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