By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin
Publication Date: 2026-10-27 09:30:00
ChatGPT and Perplexity have entered Decodo’s ranking of the most-scraped websites, in third and fifth place, signalling rising demand for data from AI answer platforms.
TikTok retained the top spot for the second year running, while Google stayed in second place in Decodo’s 2026 ranking. Naver ranked fourth, followed by Perplexity, Make.com, Target, Amazon, GitHub and Stack Overflow.
The ranking is based on anonymised usage data from Decodo’s customer base and tracks which websites received the highest volume of scraping requests during the year. This year’s list saw the biggest change in the report’s three-year history, with seven of the previous top 10 dropping out.
Only TikTok, Google and Amazon remained from the previous year’s list. YouTube, Walmart, Coupang, eBay, ScienceDirect, Crunchbase and Airbnb all fell out of the top 10.
Vaidotas Juknys, Chief Executive Officer at Decodo, said the purpose of web scraping was changing as users and companies shifted towards AI-generated answers.
“Two years ago, businesses scraped the web to see what people were searching for. Now they scrape AI platforms to see what people are being told. The use case for data collection is changing,” Juknys said.
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