Readership
The honest answer to “who reads a personal site in 2026” is: mostly machines. This page counts fetches by known AI crawlers, because when someone asks a model about me, what those crawlers read is what it answers from.
Distribution list — who receives copies of this document
| recipient | copies | reads most | first issued | last issued |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 18 | / /verified other | 2026-06-12 | 2026-07-23 |
| ClaudeBot | 7 | /about /readership /resume | 2026-07-11 | 2026-07-25 |
| Applebot | 7 | / /readership /patents | 2026-06-30 | 2026-07-23 |
| ChatGPT-User | 4 | /patents other /notes | 2026-07-11 | 2026-07-19 |
| PerplexityBot | 3 | other /chat | 2026-07-11 | 2026-07-19 |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3 | / /chat other | 2026-07-11 | 2026-07-19 |
| Bingbot | 2 | /notes other | 2026-07-11 | 2026-07-13 |
| CCBot | 2 | /verified /readership | 2026-07-19 | 2026-07-19 |
| Googlebot | 2 | other /patents | 2026-07-11 | 2026-07-18 |
| Claude-User | 2 | other | 2026-07-18 | 2026-07-18 |
| Claude-SearchBot | 2 | other | 2026-07-18 | 2026-07-18 |
| Amazonbot | 2 | other | 2026-07-18 | 2026-07-18 |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | 1 | other | 2026-07-18 | 2026-07-18 |
Method: edge middleware matches the request’s user-agent against a fixed list of known AI crawlers and increments a counter per crawler and page. A user-agent string is a claim, not proof — anyone can send one. No cookies, no fingerprinting, and humans are not counted. Humans are also welcome.