July 5 (Reuters) - ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot launched in November, saw monthly traffic to its website and unique visitors decline for the first time ever in June, according to analytics firm Similarweb.
Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7% in June from May, while unique visitors to ChatGPT’s website dropped 5.7%.
The amount of time visitors spent on the website was also down 8.5%, Similarweb data shows.
"I think there are growing pains when you go from zero to 100 million users that quickly.
OpenAI also released the ChatGPT app on the iOS system in May, which could sap some traffic from its website.
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