perplexity.ai shows sustained decline with 3 consecutive months of decreases, down 18% overall to 95M.
What happened
Emerging AI traffic at 2.4% (~2,260,575 visits). Top: chatgpt.com (58%), gemini.google.com (7%), claude.ai (5%), grok.com (0%), chat.deepseek.com (0%), copilot.microsoft.com (0%).
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- Sustained decline
What this signalsTraffic trends often track demand, marketing spend and growth.
- Monthly visits
- 95,236,057
- Month over month
- -8.2%
- 3-month change
- -17.8%
- Global rank
- 473
- Top country
- US (25%)
- Trend
- Consecutive decline
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- FundingA 200 Billion Yuan AI Search Unicorn Has Emerged: Investors Have Achieved a 240-Fold Return.Funding
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The full record
From the Signal API recordNumbers
- Country rank
- 552
- Category rank
- 8
- Change, 3 months
- -17.8%
- Change, month over month
- -8.2%
- Digital health score
- 78
Details
- Measured month
- Aug 2026
- Category
- AI chatbots and tools
- Mail visits
- 1,809,485
- Traffic band
- Major
- Direct visits
- 69,236,613
- Search visits
- 15,523,477
- Small website
- No
- Snapshot date
- Aug 1, 2026
- Social visits
- 3,047,554
- Website title
- Perplexity
- Brand strength
- Strong
- Referral visits
- 2,761,846
- AI traffic level
- Emerging
- AI traffic detail
- Emerging AI traffic at 2.4% (~2,260,575 visits). Top: chatgpt.com (58%), gemini.google.com (7%), claude.ai (5%), grok.com (0%), chat.deepseek.com (0%), copilot.microsoft.com (0%).
- Geo concentration
- Diversified
- Referral strength
- Weak
- Search dependency
- Low
- Consecutive months
- 3
- Engagement quality
- High
- Brand keyword ratio
- 3/5
- Website description
- Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
- Country rank country
- US
- Digital health label
- Excellent
- Social traffic level
- Low
Extraction
- Detected
- Sep 11, 2026
- signal_type
seo-traffic- signal_subtype
sustainedDecline
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"digital_health_detail": "Score 78: Engagement 78/100 (25%), Volume 100/100 (20%), Brand 100/100 (15%), Diversification 40/100 (15%), Rank 100/100 (15%), AI Readiness 24/100 (10%).",
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