AI Traffic Index — Moldova

Issue #1 · 13 Jul – 1 Aug 2026. What AI bots and AI-assistant shoppers actually did on 3 monitored stores (2 in Moldova, 1 in Georgia) — measured server-side, not estimated.

Published monthly by Botmetria. Store names are anonymised; owners see their own numbers in their dashboard.

1,005,146

requests from AI bots to the panel's stores in ~3 weeks

606,017

requests from a single AI vendor to one store (~34,000/day)

8

…of those reached product pages. The rest burned server resources on service pages and category filters

73,715

product pages read by AI bots at the panel's most machine-readable store

144

human visits from AI assistants (90% — ChatGPT). Google Analytics files them under “direct”

0

online orders attributed to AI so far. The market is one second before the start

Four findings

1. AI is already here

Over one million AI-bot requests hit just three stores in three weeks. This traffic is invisible to standard analytics: bots do not run JavaScript, so GA never sees them.

2. Crawling ≠ reading

The record-holder received 606,017 requests from one AI vendor — and only 8 of them reached product pages: the crawler drowned in category filters, the catalog stayed unread, and the server paid for every hit. A machine-readable store on the same panel got 73,715 product pages read.

3. AI shoppers have started arriving

144 human visits came from AI assistants, 90% of them from ChatGPT. Standard analytics files them under “direct”, so store owners do not know these visitors exist.

4. Zero orders — the window is open

Not a single online order has been attributed to an AI assistant yet. Median AI-readiness of the top 63 Moldovan stores is 38/100. The first stores that become readable will take the first AI orders. Rating →

Method: server-side events from the Botmetria collector on the panel's stores (no shopper PII), 13 Jul – 1 Aug 2026; readiness — public audit of 63 stores. Panel data is anonymised. Next issue: September 2026.