ChatGPT Reclaims 55.5% Web Traffic as Gemini Fades

ChatGPT's share of AI chatbot website visits climbed to 55.5 percent, according to Similarweb data, up from 52.7 percent three months earlier. That recovery comes after a stretch in which Google's Gemini ate into OpenAI's lead. Gemini had pushed its own share up to 27.8 percent before slipping back to 25.6 percent, a sign that whatever drove its brief surge has cooled off.

The bigger story sits in the year-over-year numbers. ChatGPT commanded 73.3 percent of chatbot traffic a year ago, meaning it has shed nearly 18 points even while reclaiming ground in recent months. Gemini has roughly doubled its share over the same period.

Anthropic's Claude jumped from 1.9 to 9.3 percent, a much steeper climb than any of the smaller players managed. DeepSeek, Grok, Copilot, and Perplexity are still stuck in single digits, none of them cracking 4 percent.

Those figures only capture web traffic, though, and that's a narrowing window into how people actually reach these tools now. Google can route Gemini use through Android push notifications that skip the browser entirely, and OpenAI has its own mobile app and desktop client pulling users away from the sites these numbers track.