The internet is
being read by agents
Real-time data across every site Mintlify powers.
Agents vs Human traffic
in September
Human readership holds steady while agent readership compounds and takes over
Agent readership growth, February to August 2026. Humans grew 1.2x.
Weekend drop in agent reading. Human reading drops 34%. Agents are visiting your site every day of the week.
Average human visit. Agents leave in milliseconds.
Humans cluster in cities. Agents cluster in datacenters.
Requests to Mintlify-hosted docs by US state over the last 30 days. Human traffic follows population. Agent traffic follows cloud regions. Virginia, California, and Oregon dominate the map.
Fintech already went agent-first. Your industry is next.
Agent traffic across the most visited sites, grouped by industry, in August 2026.
- 1Fintech & payments70% agents6 sites in the top 150up from 20.5% in February
- 2Crypto & web362.5% agents16 sites in the top 150up from 24.6% in February
- 3Agent platforms & AI tooling47.3% agents22 sites in the top 150up from 13% in February
- 4AI coding tools46.8% agents10 sites in the top 150up from 12.3% in February
- 5AI models & inference41.4% agents17 sites in the top 150up from 9.1% in February
- 6Dev infrastructure & data37.9% agents32 sites in the top 150up from 15.5% in February
- 7SaaS & business apps34.4% agents26 sites in the top 150up from 14.4% in February
Agents read docs like a filesystem
Every Mintlify docs site ships an MCP server. Search is still the most common tool call, but direct calls straight to the filesystem are on pace to overtake search by the end of the year.
Average tool calls per day across every Mintlify MCP server.
Growth in MCP tool calls, January to August 2026.
Agents navigate docs straight through the filesystem almost as often as they use the search index.
Aggregated and anonymized across documentation hosted on Mintlify
Every figure on this page comes from the same request data grouped by human and agent traffic. Human traffic is measured client-side when a browser loads a page. Agent traffic is measured server-side from fetches of machine-readable content and requests from known AI user agents. Figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.