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Apr 26, 2026 · Technical · 9 min

What Googlebot, GPTBot, and ClaudeBot Actually See on Your Site in 2026

Three crawlers, three very different views of the same page. We logged a month of requests across small sites and mapped exactly what each one renders, ignores, and cites.

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  9. 310Apr 19, 2026
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  10. 311Apr 19, 2026
    How Opus 4.7 Reads Your Site Differently Than ChatGPT
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