In just one year, ChatGPT has literally doubled its traffic. Rising from 2.69 billion visits in July 2024 to 5.72 billion in July 2025, it now ranks 5th among the most visited websites in the world, after being in 17th place only a year earlier.
It thus joins the very exclusive circle of web giants, behind:
A spectacular rise that confirms the place of generative AI in mass digital usage.
The chart below illustrates the evolution of ChatGPT’s monthly traffic, based on consolidated data from reliable sources:
This impressive growth is accompanied by remarkable user loyalty: in May 2025, 486 million active users accessed the ChatGPT mobile app each month. A figure that reflects its central role in daily use cases: productivity, assistance, research, creation…
While some AI tools like Microsoft Copilot or Google Gemini show significant usage gaps between their web and mobile versions, ChatGPT succeeds in massively retaining users across both platforms. It thus ranks first among the most visited AI apps and websites, with a number of visitors (web + mobile) far exceeding that of its competitors.
The rise of ChatGPT is part of a profound transformation in digital behavior. In May 2025:
Meanwhile, so-called "zero-click" searches — where users get an answer directly without leaving Google — rose from 56% to 69% in a year (May 2024 to May 2025). This shift caused a major drop in traffic, with news websites falling from 2.3 billion to less than 1.7 billion monthly visits.
Overall, Google recorded a -1.4% decline in its web access indicators over the same period — a strong signal of a paradigm shift in how people access information online.
The use of ChatGPT now goes far beyond simple search: strategic monitoring, content creation, brainstorming, automation… AI is becoming an intelligent, contextualized daily assistant. Behaviors are evolving, and with them, the economic models of the web.
After this meteoric trajectory, ChatGPT-5 was just launched in early August 2025, integrating advanced capabilities in multimodal understanding, voice interaction, and personalized agents.
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