Kagi search visits are no longer counted as AI referrals
AI Landing Pages counted every visit from kagi.com as coming from an AI assistant. Kagi is a search engine; only its assistant now counts. Expect the Kagi figure to fall sharply, for past dates as well as new ones.
AI Landing Pages shows the visits people make to your site after an AI assistant pointed them there. We decide that from where the visit came from: chatgpt.com, claude.ai, perplexity.ai and so on.
Our list included kagi.com. Kagi is a paid search engine that also has an AI assistant, and the list treated everything arriving from it as the assistant. Across all sites in August and September, 180 of the 181 visits we had labelled "Kagi" were ordinary search clicks.
Only Kagi Assistant (assistant.kagi.com) now counts, the same way duck.ai counts for DuckDuckGo and duckduckgo.com search does not.
What you will see:
- The Kagi figure falls, usually to a handful of visits or none. On sites where Kagi was listed as the top assistant, another will take its place.
- Past dates are corrected too. The report is worked out when you open it, so the change applies to any period you select, not only to new traffic.
- Totals for AI-referred visits fall by the same amount. Nothing else in the report changes.
We also removed four company websites from the list that had never produced a visit but could have been miscounted in future (openai.com, mistral.ai, x.ai and deepseek.com, as distinct from the assistants at chatgpt.com, chat.mistral.ai, grok.com and chat.deepseek.com).
One limit remains and always will: a click from an AI summary shown on a search results page, on Kagi or Google, arrives as an ordinary search visit and cannot be told apart. The figures are a floor. They never overcount. See how an AI referral is detected.