OpenAI: 10,602,782 reads for training purposes｜Nearly nine in ten requests are for training purposes; also the platform with the most real-time retrievals

Compare with Figure 3-4 (Google): look first at retrievals and customer arrivals, then at the scope of ongoing tracking in the middle.

OpenAI: Of the three crawler types, the one for training purposes recorded the most reads: 10,602,782
Finding: Nearly nine in ten reads are for training purposes. It is also the platform with the most real-time retrievals.
The OpenAI path: crawlers come in, black box inside the platform, customers visit
2026/3/3–10/8 · three crawlers, 11,998,898 requests total; OpenAI Organic Traffic breakdown still being tracked
Requests from three identified crawlers
Green band widths are allocated by 11,998,898 requests; each purpose is counted once.
S3 Train
10,602,782 requests
S4 Index
760,806 requests
S5 Ask
635,310 requests
Black box inside the platform
AI mention, answer, and action flow
OpenAI-specific requests: Tracking in Progress
S1 Prepare
Our website
S2 Crawl
OpenAI's three crawlers
S3–S5 Entering the site
Site request log
S6–S8 Inside the platform
Black Box
S9 Visit
Organic Traffic
Whole site
196,702,526
Requests · 2/12–10/8
OpenAI
11,998,898
Requests
S3 Train
Training crawler
10,602,782
Requests
Takes content back for model training
S4 Index
Search crawler
760,806
S5 Ask
Real-time retrieval crawler
635,310
Training requests visible
In AI Platforms: live tests
Indexing requests visible
In AI Platforms: live tests
Real-time retrievals visible
In AI Platforms: live tests
After training
In AI Platforms: live tests
S6 Mention
In AI Platforms: live tests
S7 Answer
In AI Platforms: live tests
S9 Visit
Organic Traffic
Tracking
Site-wide total
309,826 visits
S8 Act
Tracking in Progress
S10 Return
Tracking in Progress
On this path, what we can count directly is crawler requests arriving at the site.
The training, indexing, and question request branches do not overlap; they sum to 11,998,898.
The platform's mentions, answers, and actions are each read in their own units.
The 309,826 in S9 is Organic Traffic from all sources; the OpenAI breakdown is still being tracked.
Sources: approved site-wide and Organic Traffic figures; the three crawlers' requests are summed from the 2026/3/3–10/8 approved list.
Green band widths are allocated by the request counts of the three crawlers; the dashed box marks the inside of the OpenAI platform, observed by live tests.
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EO