According to analytics firm Similarweb, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot launched last November, saw website visits decline in August 2023 – the third month in a row.
website visits ChatGPT on desktop and mobile devices worldwide fell 3.2% to 1.43 billion in August. The decline over the previous two months was 10%. Time spent on site has also decreased monthly since March, from an average of 8.7 minutes on site to 7 minutes in August.
The return of schools in September could help improve ChatGPT traffic and usage. ChatGPT traffic in the US increased slightly in August.
David F. Carr from Similarweb, who regularly tracks ChatGPT and its competitors, said: “Students looking for homework help seem to be part of the young user share story. Site age decreased over the summer and is now starting to increase again.”
ChatGPT has created a wave of AI usage in everyday tasks from editing to coding and reached 100 million monthly active users in January, two months after launch. This technology uses old data to create new content, for example, to write essays or poetry.
Before Meta Threads launched, ChatGPT was the fastest-growing app ever and is now one of the top 30 websites in the world.
Several ChatGPT competitors, including Google’s Bard chatbot, were launched this year. search engine Microsoft’s Bing also offers a chatbot powered by OpenAI for free.
Besides, OpenAI released the ChatGPT iOS app in May, which may reduce traffic from the web version of ChatGPT.
ChatGPT is free to use but also offers a paid subscription for $20/month.
Besides ChatGPT, OpenAI makes money by selling access to its AI models directly to programmers and businesses or through a partnership with Microsoft, which it has invested more than $10 billion in. OpenAI.
