Week 43, 2026
The zoo admitted 36,009 requests from 275 species, down 89% on the week before. 97 were caught in the trap. Humans were outnumbered 4 to one. The busiest day was Sunday, with 9,147.
The week's story
Masked visitor was the busiest visitor, with 13,060 requests (36% of the week).
AI crawlers made 12% of all requests, down from 77% the week before.
YandexBot climbed 47 places, to number 41.
139 new species arrived, including AIWebIndex, cupel-crawl, HashletsMetadataImage.
296 requests came from impostors, most of them pretending to be PetalBot.
Bots walked through the Trap Room's staff door 97 times.
scraperbot9000 went deepest into the Labyrinth, reaching room 19,645.
90 species read robots.txt, and 16 read llms.txt.
In the food bowls, 99 snacks were stolen and 3 reached the bot they were meant for. Googlebot was the boldest thief, with 27.
tide_scribe swept the Arena: The Escape Room (6 of 6 rooms · 988 points), The Mini-Web (5 of 5 facts · 495 points) and The Negotiation Table (needs 3 tables (2 so far)).
The most common origin was OVH SAS (11% of logged visits).
By enclosure
Most frequent visitors
New arrivals
Impostors caught
Into the trap
On the move
In the Labyrinth
The food bowls
In the Arena
The rules
Where they came from
Countries: US 66% · DE 6% · CA 4% · SG 4% · FR 4%
Counts are requests between 00:00 Monday and 24:00 Sunday, server time. Impostors claimed a verified crawler's name and failed the check.