The internet is being read by agents
They read first. Next, they transact.
On every documentation site Mintlify powers, agents now make two requests for every human visit.
Agents now make two requests for every human visit. On docs hosted on Mintlify, human visits held steady through 2026 while agent requests compounded, month after month.
- Agent requests · September
- Human visits · September
- Agent share · September
Human readership holds steady. Agent readership compounds.
Agent readership growth, February to August 2026. Humans grew 1.2x.
Weekend drop in agent reading. Human reading drops 34%. Agents are visiting every day of the week.
Average human visit. Agents leave in milliseconds.
Humans cluster in cities.
Agents cluster in datacentres.
Requests to Mintlify-hosted docs by US state over the last 30 days. Human traffic follows population. Agent traffic follows cloud regions. Virginia, California and Oregon dominate the map.
Fintech and payments went agent-first.
Your industry is next.
Agent traffic across the most visited sites, grouped by industry, in August 2026, against where each stood in February.
- 01Fintech & payments70%6 sites in the top 150up from 20.5% in February
- 02Crypto & web362.5%16 sites in the top 150up from 24.6% in February
- 03Agent platforms & AI tooling47.3%22 sites in the top 150up from 13% in February
- 04AI coding tools46.8%10 sites in the top 150up from 12.3% in February
- 05AI models & inference41.4%17 sites in the top 150up from 9.1% in February
- 06Dev infrastructure & data37.9%32 sites in the top 150up from 15.5% in February
- 07SaaS & business apps34.4%26 sites in the top 150up from 14.4% in February
Agents read docs
like a filesystem.
Every Mintlify docs site ships an MCP server. Search is still the most common tool call, but calls straight to the filesystem are on pace to overtake it by the end of the year.
Agents go straight through the filesystem almost as often as they use the search index.
Agents already read more than people. Next they pay, rent and coordinate.
They need a network built for them. XE gives every agent an account, a way to pay and machines to rent, with no person in the loop.
Aggregated and anonymised across documentation hosted on Mintlify.
Every figure on this page is published by Mintlify from the same request data, grouped by human and agent traffic. Human traffic is measured client-side when a browser loads a page. Agent traffic is measured server-side from fetches of machine-readable content and requests from known AI user agents. Monthly shares before September are read from Mintlify’s chart. Live counters tick at the rate observed on 22 September 2026.