Launch day has an audience
New sites get scanned in 4.2 minutes.
We met 405 sites for the first time yesterday. 49% heard from a scanner within the hour, and 142 had a bot as their very first visitor.
Edition of Friday, Oct 9, 2026 (UTC) · see the latest · updated every 24 hours
4.2 min
median wait
▼ -98% vs the day before
49%
probed in 1h
35%
bot came first
Every edition: median wait
How we measure
Sites the NiceTryBot edge saw for the first time during the UTC day. For each, the time from its first request of any kind to its first probe (a request for a path only scanners ask for), measured up to when the report was published. "First visitor was a bot" means the site's very first request was a probe.
The race
| How long until the first scanner | Sites | Share of new sites |
|---|---|---|
| under a minute | 171 | 42% |
| 1–10 minutes | 9 | 2% |
| 10–60 minutes | 19 | 5% |
| 1–6 hours | 76 | 19% |
| 6+ hours | 70 | 17% |
| no scanner yet | 60 | 15% |
Past editions
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