In January 2024, ChatGPT online domain chat.openai.com registered over **** percent of its traffic as originating in the United States. Users based in India generated approximately **** percent of the total visits to the chatbot platform, while users in Indonesia accounted for *** percent of the total visits to the website. Visits from Brazil represented the fourth-largest group for the platform, generating more than **** percent of the total traffic recorded in the examined period.

Between November 2022 and January 2024, global traffic to ChatGPT's online domain chat.openai.com originated mainly from mobile devices. In the last examined month, mobile devices generated approximately **** billion visits to the chatbot's website, with another **** billion accesses originating from desktops. Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT became the fastest online service to reach the milestone of more than a million users in five days.

Traffic analytics, rankings, and competitive metrics for chatgpt.com as of May 2025

In January 2024, ChatGPT website chat.openai.com saw almost ******* of its global traffic originating from its home country, the United States. The group of countries comprising India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Canada was responsible for over ** percent of the artificial intelligence chatbot startup's website traffic, while other countries represented over ** percent of its traffic volume altogether.

In August 2023, chat.openai.com, which is the website for the company's popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, had around 1.4 billion website visits worldwide, a slight decrease from the 1.5 billion visits registered in the previous month.

Introduction

OpenAI Statistics: OpenAI, Inc. is an AI company based in San Francisco, California, and was started in December 2015. Its main goal is to build powerful and safe AI systems. OpenAI wants to create smart machines, called AGI, that can do most jobs better than humans, especially the ones that add economic value. This is also best known for developing advanced AI tools like ChatGPT, designed to solve real-world problems and improve daily life. Its mission is to make powerful AI available to everyone in a way that benefits society.

This article includes several current statistical analyses that are taken from different insights, which will guide in understanding the topic effectively as it covers the overall market, sales, user demographics, usage shares, website traffic, and many other factors.

From October 2024 to February 2025, ChatGPT outperformed competing AI-powered search engines in traffic referral, achieving a total growth of 155.52 percent. Perplexity placed second, despite experiencing more significant fluctuations, with a total growth of 54.78 percent by the conclusion of the analyzed period. With a 43.64 percent overall growth, Google's Gemini ranked third among other engines and maintained the most consistent traffic referral rate. Artificial intelligence-driven trends, notably AI-powered search, are changing online traffic patterns. This suggests a more significant change in the way users find information online and is expected to have a knock-on effect on the digital advertising sector.

In January 2024, ChatGPT online domain chat.openai.com had a bounce rate of approximately **** percent. Between September 2023 and the last examined month, the platform's sessions where users didn't take action or engage with the content in any meaningful way stayed at an average of over **** percent.

Between November 2022 and the beginning of 2024, global visitors to ChatGPT engaged with an average of one to two pages on the chatbot's website. In January 2024, the global audience of OpenAI's artificial intelligence software website chat.openai.com engaged with around 1.46 pages per session.

In the period between its release in November 2022 and January 2024, ChatGPT saw the average duration of global visits to its web domain, chat.openai.com, increase sensibly. As of the last examined month, visitors worldwide spent 815 seconds on average in the platform's domain, equating to 13 minutes and 34 seconds. The peak of the chatbot's website session length happened in October 2023, when users worldwide spent an average of 873 seconds on the web page.

A study released in March 2025 that looked at about 35,000 websites found that online search channels were responsible for almost ** percent of the traffic generated to these domains. By the time of this study, direct traffic corresponded to around **** percent of visits to the analyzed websites. Meanwhile, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini corresponded to around *** percent of the verified traffic, representing a share just below e-mail platforms.

In 2023, ChatGPT was the artificial intelligence (AI) tool that had the most number of website visits worldwide, eclipsing all other AI tools with a total of **** billion website visits in the period from September 2022 to August 2023.

In November 2024, Google.com was the most popular website worldwide with 136 billion average monthly visits. The online platform has held the top spot as the most popular website since June 2010, when it pulled ahead of Yahoo into first place. Second-ranked YouTube generated more than 72.8 billion monthly visits in the measured period. The internet leaders: search, social, and e-commerce Social networks, search engines, and e-commerce websites shape the online experience as we know it. While Google leads the global online search market by far, YouTube and Facebook have become the world’s most popular websites for user generated content, solidifying Alphabet’s and Meta’s leadership over the online landscape. Meanwhile, websites such as Amazon and eBay generate millions in profits from the sale and distribution of goods, making the e-market sector an integral part of the global retail scene. What is next for online content? Powering social media and websites like Reddit and Wikipedia, user-generated content keeps moving the internet’s engines. However, the rise of generative artificial intelligence will bring significant changes to how online content is produced and handled. ChatGPT is already transforming how online search is performed, and news of Google's 2024 deal for licensing Reddit content to train large language models (LLMs) signal that the internet is likely to go through a new revolution. While AI's impact on the online market might bring both opportunities and challenges, effective content management will remain crucial for profitability on the web.

In January 2023, over 60 percent of web traffic to the Open AI website from Italy was from mobile devices. By comparison, approximately 40 percent of visitors accessed the website via desktop devices. In March 2023, the national privacy regulator banned OpenAI's main product ChatGPT - an AI-powered chatbot that can mimic human interactions - with the regulator alleging the chatbot is violating European privacy laws. In April 2023, the Italian privacy regulator reported that ChatGPT will be allowed to operate in the country if OpenAI provides information on the purpose of its data collection as well as disallows minor users from accessing the website.

Traditional search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo! got more than ***** billion visits around the world in March 2025. Concurrently, AI chatbots like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Perplexity received approximately * billion visits during the same month.

In November 2024, Google.com ranked as the most visited website in Kenya, with nearly **** billion visits. YouTube followed, totaling at just over *** million visits, while Chatgpt had roughly *** million visits during the same period.

As of March 2025, Google represented 79.1 percent of the global online search engine market on desktop devices. Despite being much ahead of its competitors, this represents the lowest share ever recorded by the search engine in these devices for over two decades. Meanwhile, its long-time competitor Bing accounted for 12.21 percent, as tools like Yahoo and Yandex held shares of over 2.9 percent each. Google and the global search market Ever since the introduction of Google Search in 1997, the company has dominated the search engine market, while the shares of all other tools has been rather lopsided. The majority of Google revenues are generated through advertising. Its parent corporation, Alphabet, was one of the biggest internet companies worldwide as of 2024, with a market capitalization of 2.02 trillion U.S. dollars. The company has also expanded its services to mail, productivity tools, enterprise products, mobile devices, and other ventures. As a result, Google earned one of the highest tech company revenues in 2024 with roughly 348.16 billion U.S. dollars. Search engine usage in different countries Google is the most frequently used search engine worldwide. But in some countries, its alternatives are leading or competing with it to some extent. As of the last quarter of 2023, more than 63 percent of internet users in Russia used Yandex, whereas Google users represented little over 33 percent. Meanwhile, Baidu was the most used search engine in China, despite a strong decrease in the percentage of internet users in the country accessing it. In other countries, like Japan and Mexico, people tend to use Yahoo along with Google. By the end of 2024, nearly half of the respondents in Japan said that they had used Yahoo in the past four weeks. In the same year, over 21 percent of users in Mexico said they used Yahoo.