- Chatgpt now leads AI’s reference traffic worldwide, leaving Google Gemini far behind in use
- Deepseek’s domination in China reveals how tight control can quickly forge the superpowers of domestic AI
- Statcounter confirms that Chatgpt is now the default gateway to websites on most world markets
New Chatgpt research claims dominate reference traffic to cat cats worldwide, with a share of 79.8%.
Statcourter’s figures indicate that the Openai platform leads to all the G20 nations except China, where Deepseek has become the unexpected favorite.
Despite the widespread influence of Chatgpt, he had trouble making breakthroughs in the digital ecosystem closely regulated in China, which is now a rare blindness in its global push.
Deepseek reigns China – while Chatgpt takes the rest of the world
The overall influence of Chatgpt is obvious in its significant advance on competitors such as perplexity (11.8%), Microsoft Copilot (5.2%) and Google Gemini (2%).
This domination suggests that users are turning more and more to AI chatbots not only for answers, but as a wider web bridges, the effective remodeling of the traffic model dominated for a long time by traditional search engines.
“We are already moving into a new era of SEO (optimization of search engines) to generative engine optimization (GEO),” said Aodhan Cullen, CEO of Statcourter.
This change could constitute a substantial threat to traditional research models, in particular for Google, whose AI -based research tools are lagging behind.
While Chatgpt continues to function as one of the main engines of traffic and undoubtedly the best referencing tool in most of the world, its inability to penetrate China reveals a distinct limitation.
There, Deepseek has an astonishing market share of 89.3%. Although overall, it only commands 0.8% of the references, Deepseek actually took advantage of its internal environment to exclude foreign competitors.
When it was launched, Deepseek drew significant attention, becoming the most popular term in the world for a day.
He exceeded Chatgpt by becoming the most downloaded free application in the United States and the United Kingdom and recorded 12 million downloads in 2 days, even faster than Optai.
In China, it is an indigenous alternative to OpenAi tools, partly because of its early alignment to AI government policy, and has been prohibited or studied by several nations.
Google, on the other hand, is in an awkward position. Despite the development of a large part of the fundamental AI technology, it now follows adoption and impact.
Cullen compares Google’s current struggle to that of “traditional software suppliers on site at the birth of Cloud Computing”.
There are now rumors about the potentially introduction apple of AI’s research capacities in Safari, which would still intensify the pressure on Google’s research activities.
Statcourter’s conclusions are based on more than 3.8 billion pages of monthly views, and it offers a real time overview of the balance of changing powers.
However, the image is not completely complete. Grok, another major chatbot, was excluded from the classification due to its lack of reference data in mind, leaving a small blind spot in the wider analysis of the market.
