The internet is
being read by agents
Real-time data across every site Mintlify powers. This isn't a forecast, it's happening now.
Agents vs Humans
at a glance
Humans readership holds steady while agent readership compounds, quietly becoming the new audience
Agent traffic growth, year over year. Humans grew 1.2x.
Peak agent reading hour. Agents do not believe in weekends either.
Average agent visit. The average human stays 4m 12s.
Humans cluster in cities. Agents cluster in datacenters.
Requests to Mintlify-hosted docs by US state, last 30 days. Human traffic follows population. Agent traffic follows cloud regions — Virginia, California, and Oregon dominate the map.
Crypto's docs already went agent-first. Your industry is next.
The 150 highest-traffic docs sites, grouped by industry, last 30 days, ranked by who actually does the reading.
- 1Crypto & web382.5% agents14 sites in the top 15023.2M requests
- 2AI coding tools76.8% agents14 sites in the top 15029.9M requests
- 3Fintech & payments45.1% agents5 sites in the top 1501.8M requests
- 4Dev infrastructure & data34.1% agents39 sites in the top 15016.3M requests
- 5AI models & labs32.6% agents14 sites in the top 15056.2M requests
- 6SaaS & AI apps30% agents13 sites in the top 1507.3M requests
- 7Agent platforms & AI tooling28.1% agents24 sites in the top 15019.2M requests
Agents are reading docs like a filesystem
Every Mintlify docs site ships an MCP server. Search still leads, but almost half of every tool call goes straight to the docs filesystem.
Average tool calls per day across every Mintlify MCP server.
Busiest single day, June 3. Agents do not observe weekends.
Search is only half the story. Agents read docs straight through the filesystem almost as often as they ask the search index.
Aggregated and anonymized across documentation hosted on Mintlify
Every figure on this page comes from the same request data, split into human and agent. Human traffic is measured client side when a browser loads a docs page. Agent traffic is the server side fetch of machine readable content and known AI user agents. Figures are lightly rounded.