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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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