Results
A crawler request is not a citation, and a brand mention is not a displayed source URL. This page keeps each signal in its own evidence lane.
Direct answer
AI Growth Bench currently has verified search discovery and historical crawler access, but very little traffic. The current Search Console snapshot recorded 189 property-level impressions, 237 URL impressions, and 0 clicks from 2026-08-05 through 2026-09-01. The fixed 30-check baseline is complete: 3 answers mentioned AI Growth Bench and 2 displayed an aigrowthbench.com source, all for the branded definition prompt. The other 27 non-brand cells produced no mention or citation. No AI referral session has been verified. The September 14 retest will use the same prompts and engines instead of converting readiness scores or crawler logs into visibility claims.
Reviewed by Alex. Evidence updated September 4, 2026.
Current search window
The property-level total is 189 impressions. Page-dimension rows represent 237 URL impressions because more than one site URL can appear in one search result. Query-only rows represent 54 impressions, while 21 visible query-page pairs represent 56 URL impressions; Google also omits some low-volume queries for privacy. These measures are shown separately instead of being reconciled artificially.
Public result ledger
Answer-engine mentions
Observed3
Fixed baseline captured 2026-08-31
The answer named or accurately recognized AI Growth Bench.
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity named AI Growth Bench for the branded definition prompt; 27 non-brand cells produced no mention.
Verified citations
Observed2
Fixed baseline captured 2026-08-31
The captured answer displayed a source relationship that can be verified.
ChatGPT and Perplexity displayed an aigrowthbench.com source for the branded definition prompt. Gemini mentioned the project without a displayed source.
Displayed source URLs
Observed2
Fixed baseline captured 2026-08-31
A canonical aigrowthbench.com URL was visible in the captured answer evidence.
Two baseline cells displayed canonical AI Growth Bench source URLs; the other 28 displayed no qualifying source URL.
AI referral sessions
Zero observed0
Domain-matched GA4 review through 2026-09-03
An analytics session attributed to an AI answer or assistant referrer.
No AI referral session was verified in the reviewed AI Growth Bench analytics window.
AI/search crawler classes
Observed7
Server-log review through 2026-08-15
A named crawler user agent requested a public page; this is discovery evidence only.
Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, and Applebot reached the site.
The captured answer must show a source relationship that can be audited. For this benchmark, the strongest form is an exact displayed URL on aigrowthbench.com. A response that names the brand without a visible source remains a mention. Similar wording without a visible source is not upgraded to a citation.
Crawler visits show that an engine or assistant can retrieve a page. They do not show that the page appeared in an answer, was cited, or sent a visitor. This separation keeps technical readiness useful without turning access logs into outcome claims.
Sources