Unique Research · Ranking / Monthly Traffic · September 19, 2024 · Author: Shen Liang · Edited by Qiuping
August 2024 traffic snapshot for scaled AI products worldwide — visits, downloads, unique visitors, app revenue, time-on-site, and mobile-page share — across Global / China Domestic / Overseas (Chinese founders) Top 50 boards. Scope: users on PC, tablet, and smartphone via website or app only. Excludes browser extensions, desktop software, mini-programs, Discord and other third-party hosts, and local open-source runs. Universe: products with >10k monthly visits; analysis focuses on the Top 50 in each cut.
Headline numbers
- Scaled global Web AI products: 1,757 (+40 MoM).
- China Web AI (domestic + overseas): 307 (from 280 in July, +9.64%).
- Overseas (Chinese-founded) Web AI: 108 for the first time above 100 (from 95, +13.68%).
- Scaled AI apps: 355 global; 211 China.
- Global AI product visits: 8.985B (+4.41% vs 8.607B) — a record; total time-on-product 972M hours (+3.74% vs 937M hours).
- ChatGPT unique visitors: 255M in August.
01 · Global AI Top 50
Web visits. Top 50 spans 24 categories; chatbots, smart search, and graphic design lead. Mean visits 152M; median 28M. Top 3 — ChatGPT 2.632B, Bing 1.782B, Canva 681M — all up MoM; ChatGPT +197M (+8.07%). Floor for Top 50: 12M (VEED.IO at #50). Fastest MoM: Wordware (+2,578.49%) — natural-language AI IDE for agents, ~$100k revenue in 7 days after launch; #2 growth Kling AI (Kuaishou video model, fully open late July). Midjourney, SpicyChat AI, Perplexity each >+10%.
Web MAU. ChatGPT 255M (+11M); Bing 209M (+9M); Canva 137M (+9M).
Web time. ChatGPT 265.08M hours; Bing 202.09M; Canva 94.16M. #50 AutoResponder.ai at 50k hours; median board time 2.75M hours (−70k MoM). Assistants (chat/translate), design, finance, and marketing take most dwell.
App downloads. CapCut/Jianying 40.36M (multi-month #1); ChatGPT 25.73M; Duolingo 18.47M; Doubao slips to #5 at 13.20M. Floor 1.33M (ByteDance’s Cat Box at #50). 31 apps up / 18 down MoM; YouCut +1,825%; Filmora and VN each >+500% — video editing demand beyond CapCut.
App MAU / sessions. CapCut 321M MAU (flat); four products above 100M MAU (ChatGPT, Meitu, Canva 106M). MAU adds: ChatGPT +22M, Edge +19M, Canva +10M+. Sessions: CapCut 8.642B (+1.12%); Character.AI 5.447B (+12.73%); ChatGPT 5.376B (+22.73%).
App revenue (ex-ads). Three above $30M: Duolingo $36.7M; ChatGPT $31.27M; CapCut $31.03M. Floor $860k (Future Baby Generator at #50).
[Charts: Global boards — CN images; attach on ingest]
02 · China Domestic Top 50
Web visits. 21 categories; chatbots / smart search / design lead. LLM chatbots remain the largest traffic entry. Doubao overtakes Alibaba Tongyi into Top 3 at 10.80M visits. Kimi 22.85M (#1); Ernie Bot 19.00M (#2). 34 products above 1M monthly Web visits (+5 MoM). Vidu (Shengshu × Tsinghua long-form video model, live Jul 30) clears 5M visits in one month. Fastest MoM: 360 AI Assistant (ISC.AI 2024 launch — switch across 16 domestic models); Vidu, Zhihu Direct Answer, Baidu Chat each >+100%.
Web MAU. Kimi.ai 3.91M (#1, down MoM); Ernie 3.68M; Doubao 2.83M (+620k); Vidu 2.28M. 360 AI Search / Soda Office / AI Assistant all up.
Web duration. Mean session 4.69 min; median 3.57; max 16.91 / min 0.45. Total time: Kimi 1.11M hours; Ernie 0.92M; Vidu #3.
App downloads. 13 China AI apps above 1M downloads; Top 50 floor 90k. CapCut 40.36M; Doubao 13.20M; Meitu 10.59M. Top 10 split video/image edit vs chatbots; Meitu holds 3 of Top 10 (Wink, Meitu, BeautyCam). Fastest: Kaipai (+173.19%), Meitu Design Studio (+148%), Wink (+87%), Meitu (+76%); iFlytek Tingjian +35.52%.
App MAU / sessions. CapCut 321M; Meitu crosses 100M (100.36M); Doubao 32.35M (+1.93M). 26 products above 1M MAU; Wink newly above 10M. Sessions: CapCut 8.642B; Meitu 2.135B; Doubao 765M; Cat Box 228M (+73M). ByteDance holds 3 of Top 5 session slots.
[Charts: China domestic boards — attach on ingest]
03 · Overseas (Chinese founders) Top 50
Web visits. 19 categories; video edit / video gen / image gen dominate. CapCut overseas 40.39M (#1); Fotor (Hengtux) 15.35M; Kling AI overseas 14.89M (#3). Image & design take 5 of Web Top 10.
Web MAU. CapCut 20.97M; Fotor 10.24M (clears 10M); 123RF 6.92M. 33 products above 1M MAU (+7 MoM).
Mobile Web share. Mobile is the primary overseas surface — A1.art 90.06% mobile; yodayo, Joyland, Viggle, CrushOn AI each >80%.
[Charts: Overseas boards — attach on ingest]
04 · Methodology
Source. Multi-source traffic signals + Unique Research labeling/classification. Universe: >10k monthly visits via site/app on PC/tablet/phone; excludes plugins, desktop software, mini-programs, Discord hosts, local open-source.
Definitions. Overseas (non-Chinese founders): founded by non-Chinese teams, primarily global. China domestic: Chinese founders, primarily China market. Overseas / “出海”: Chinese founders, primarily non-China markets.
Use. Research reference only — not investment advice. Cite “Data: Unique Research”; charts “Data & charts: Unique Research.”
Metrics. Web: Visits (session; 30-min inactivity / midnight reset), Unique Visitors (monthly dedupe), Visit Duration. App: Downloads, Sessions (re-open <5s = one), Active Users, Duration Time.
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