Reading Weekly Trends

How to use weekly trend data to track AI traffic growth and identify patterns.

Overview

The weekly trend view gives you a bird's-eye view of how AI traffic to your site is changing over time. Instead of noisy daily data, weekly aggregation smooths out day-to-day variation and reveals real trends.

What to Look For

AI Percentage Growth

The most important metric is the AI % column — the share of total traffic coming from AI platforms. A growing AI % means your content is being increasingly referenced by AI assistants.

Typical patterns:

• 2-5% — Early stage, AI platforms are discovering your content
• 5-15% — Growing presence, your content is being regularly cited
• 15%+ — Significant AI traffic, worth optimizing for

Platform Shifts

The per-platform breakdown shows which AI platforms are driving growth. Watch for:

• New entrants — A platform appearing for the first time (e.g., Cursor showing up)
• Sudden spikes — A platform dramatically increasing visits (may indicate your content was indexed)
• Declining platforms — A drop might mean your robots.txt blocked them or they changed crawling behavior

Using the API

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

Using MCP

Ask your AI assistant:

"Show me the weekly AI traffic trend for example.com over the last 90 days"

The get_weekly_trend tool returns both the weekly summary table and per-platform breakdown.

Acting on Trends