one-billion-urls-peec-ai-project

Dead internet, live invoice

People call it the dead internet theory: a lot of what you see online may be bots talking to bots, not humans talking to humans. Whether that is fully true or not, one part is easy to check. Bots still cost real money to host.

AI companies and tools send bots to websites like this one, and every visit costs the website money. So users pay OpenAI & ChatGPT, SaaS tools, scrapers, or other stuff, or they do not pay at all, while we still pay Cloudflare. Same crawl, two (or more) sides of the bill.

This site is the experiment: about 1 billion crawlable pages, so bots can keep going for a long time while we watch the bill grow in public.

Picture a newsroom too: thousands of bots hammering articles all day while journalists write for humans. Those publishers also pay for bandwidth and servers, just like we do here. This page is a tiny window into that same bill.

The dollar amounts below are our estimated Cloudflare Workers bill for this traffic: what shows up on our invoice at month end, not yours. We count every single hit (100% sampling). No guessing. If the number goes up, our bill goes up.

No refresh needed. Updates stream over WebSocket. Canonical host: sandnjournal.com (www to apex). Worker blocks RU/CN only; other UA blocks via Cloudflare. Verified OpenAI crawlers show full IP; everyone else GDPR-masked. Best AI Search Visibility Platform Peec AI.

Bot consume cost

$0.00

bots only · gross

What we pay for OpenAI bots

$0.00

on our Cloudflare bill · GPTBot / ChatGPT-User / SearchBot

All traffic cost

$0.00

all requests

Total hits

Bots

OpenAI (verified)

UTM follows

This hour

Hourly hits (live)

Last 24 hours UTC · updates with every hit peak 0 · current hour 0

one-billion-urls-peec-ai-project · live analytics

Hourly hits (live)

Recent