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Reading Weekly Trends

Interpret weekly changes in observed AI requests without treating them as citation or referral proof.

Overview

The weekly trend view aggregates classified requests so you can see changes without as much day-to-day noise. Always confirm the selected domain, date range, and request class before comparing periods.

AI-related requests are HTTP requests classified into assistant, training-crawler, coding-agent, or AI-referral categories. They are not unique people or sessions.

What to look for

The AI-related Requests column counts observed requests in the four canonical AI-related categories. The AI-related Request Share column is their share of all observed requests within the selected data. A change in this share proves only a change in the observed request mix. It does not by itself prove discovery, citation growth, or referral growth. Compare the category fields with separately collected sampled-citation and detectable-referral evidence before deciding what changed.

Platform shifts

The per-platform breakdown can reveal:

  • New observed identities — a classified platform appears in the selected window.
  • Request spikes — a platform makes substantially more observed requests.
  • Request declines — observed requests fall, which may justify checking crawler access, deployment health, or classification changes.

These patterns are diagnostic leads. They do not establish why the platform changed its behavior or how generated answers used the pages.

Using the API

curl "https://api.seellm.link/api/analytics/weekly-trend?range=90d&domain=example.com" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..."

Using MCP

Ask your AI assistant:

"Show me the weekly observed AI-related request trend for example.com over the last 90 days"

The get_weekly_trend tool returns the weekly summary and per-platform AI-related request breakdown.

ObservationCheck next
AI-related requests increaseWhich categories and important pages changed, then compare separate evidence
One platform dominatesClassification evidence and page distribution for that platform
Requests declinerobots.txt, adapter health, and deployment changes
ai_referral_requests increaseLanding pages, conversions, and whether referrer coverage changed

Use the Evidence Model when communicating what each trend does and does not prove.