# Mintlify: agents request documentation twice as often as people

> A documentation platform’s report for August 2026 - 257 million agent requests against 131 million human page loads. What it says about documentation and what it does not say about other sites

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Event date: 2026-09-16

Published: 2026-10-03

On September 16, 2026, [Mintlify](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/the-state-of-knowledge-2026-highlights) published a report on who reads documentation on its platform. The headline number: in August agents made almost twice as many requests as people.

The source is an interested party: Mintlify sells a documentation platform and creates files for agents itself. The numbers describe its customers, not the whole web.

## What is in the report

| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Agent requests, August 2026 | 257 million |
| Human page loads, August 2026 | 131 million |
| Share of agent requests through Markdown, `llms.txt` and skills | 83% |

The third row matters more than the first two. Most agent requests went not to regular HTML pages but along routes made for machines.

## How to read it

Developer documentation is the first environment where the machine reader became the main one. The reason is clear: a developer works in an editor with an assistant, and the agent reads the documentation for them.

Here a file for agents is part of the product, not an experiment.

## What the report does not show

- That shops, blogs and company sites look the same. In the logs of regular sites the picture is the opposite: according to [Ahrefs](https://ahrefs.com/blog/llmstxt-study), 97% of `llms.txt` files were requested by nobody.
- That agents come by themselves. In documentation, a person or a tool usually gives the agent the address.
- How requests are counted: one agent session can produce dozens of requests, while a person produces one page load.

## What a site owner should do

Decide which environment the site belongs to. If it is documentation or help, Markdown versions and `llms.txt` are worth doing now: [Markdown versions of pages](https://llms-full-txt.ru/en/guides/markdown-pages/). If it is a shop, start with page accessibility and product markup: [A site ready for AI](https://llms-full-txt.ru/en/guides/ai-ready-site/).