AI Crawler Tracking and Analytics
See exactly which AI bots crawl your site, when they crawl it, and what they take. citAEOtion reads your real server traffic and classifies every crawler - GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Meta, Bingbot - live. No prompts to babysit. No guessing.
The AI Crawler Tracking Dashboard
This is live server traffic from real tracked sites, classified by what each crawler is actually doing.
| Crawler | Category | Visits |
|---|---|---|
| PetalBot | AI search | 181,460 |
| BingBot | AI search | 80,706 |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | AI training | 77,696 |
| Amazonbot | AI training | 76,538 |
| ClaudeBot | AI training | 67,479 |
| GPTBot | AI training | 43,794 |
| Googlebot | AI search | 38,544 |
| Applebot | AI search | 24,737 |
| ChatGPT-User | AI assistant | 22,168 |
| OAI-SearchBot | AI search | 16,661 |
| PerplexityBot | AI search | 16,597 |
| Bytespider | AI training | 16,489 |
| Baiduspider | AI search | 10,853 |
| Claude-User | AI assistant | 10,790 |
| YandexBot | AI search | 6,949 |
AI Training 324,726
SEO Tools 94,162
AI Assistant 50,888
Data Scraper 37,720
Social 12,966
They track prompts you made up.
We track the bots that showed up.
"The Other Guys" have you pick the prompts you want to rank for, then report how you place on them. Sounds useful until you ask the obvious question: you chose the prompt - how do you know a single real person ever types it? You don't. It's like asking Google to rank you for a long-tail keyword nobody searches, then hoping it sends you business.
citAEOtion doesn't track prompts you invented. We track the actual AI bots hitting your site - and we tell you exactly who, what, and which:
Every crawler, sorted into six categories: AI Search, AI Training, AI Assistant, Data Scraper, SEO Tools, and Social.
The exact pages each crawler hit, and how often.
Not just "OpenAI" - which of their bots, by name.
Real visits. Real pages. Real bots, named and categorized. No prompts to babysit, no score to take on faith.
Their prompts cost more than your entire site.
Across 4 AI search engines. You pick the prompts, then hope someone real ever types them.
ALL the data from 57 AI bots - who hit you, what time, which page, which of their bots, and the HTTP status they got. Aggregated across every page you own, so you can see if what you're doing is actually working.
And it surfaces what prompts never can.
Real bot behavior exposes the weak points quietly killing your AI visibility:
The bots show you what's broken, on every URL. A prompt score can't see any of it.
Every site you run. One number.
Most tools make you log into a different account for every property. citAEOtion opens on your whole portfolio, then drills into any single site in one click.
- All-sites rollup by default, or filter to one domain
- Up to 100 sites on one plan, one login, one bill
- Per-site and portfolio exports for client reporting
- Add a site in two minutes, it starts reporting the same day
It doesn't just show you the bots.
It teaches you how to become the answer.
The crawler mix tells you whether you're being cited or just consumed. That tells you whether your framing is working. That tells you what to change - then you watch the search hits climb to prove it.
A prompt score tells you where you rank. citAEOtion tells you how to become the answer.
Can AI read, understand, and cite your site?
See every AI crawler
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Perplexity, Meta, Bingbot - identified and labeled the moment they hit a page.
Know what they took
Which pages, how often, and exactly when. Watch a content change get re-crawled.
Training vs search
See who is training on you and who is citing you live. They are not the same signal.
Welcome the bots
The same install that measures every AI crawler also tells them your site is open - so more of them show up.
The questions agencies and founders ask first
AI Crawler Tracking and Analytics
citAEOtion - The GA for AI. AI Crawler Tracking and Analytics. See exactly which AI bots crawl your site, when they crawl it, and what they take. citAEOtion reads your real server traffic and classifies every crawler - GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Meta, Bingbot - live. No prompts to babysit. No guessing.
5-minute WordPress install. Pay once, track for life: a one-time $99 per site, or run a free AI audit first.
Real AI Crawler Tracking bot data, not a fake score
They track prompts you made up. We track the bots that showed up.
"The Other Guys" have you pick the prompts you want to rank for, then report how you place on them. Sounds useful until you ask the obvious question: you chose the prompt - how do you know a single real person ever types it? You don't. It is like asking Google to rank you for a long-tail keyword nobody searches, then hoping it sends you business.
citAEOtion does not track prompts you invented. We track the actual AI bots hitting your site, and we tell you exactly who, what, and which:
- Who - every crawler, sorted into six categories: AI Search, AI Training, AI Assistant, Data Scraper, SEO Tools, and Social.
- What page - the exact pages each crawler hit, and how often.
- Which crawler - not just "OpenAI", but which of their bots, by name.
Real visits. Real pages. Real bots, named and categorized. No prompts to babysit, no score to take on faith. The GA of AI. Full data. No BS.
AI Crawler Tracking Built on Real Server Data
AI crawler tracking is the difference between guessing at AI visibility and measuring it. citAEOtion reads your actual server traffic and identifies every AI bot that touches your site - GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Meta, Bingbot, and 50+ more - the moment it arrives. No prompt guessing, no black-box score. Just the bots, the pages, and the timestamps.
Why AI crawler tracking beats prompt monitoring
Prompt tools ask you to invent questions and hope real people type them. AI crawler tracking flips that: it shows you which engines are already consuming your content, which pages they take, and whether they come back after you publish. When ChatGPT-User hits a URL, that is an AI assistant retrieving your page to answer a real person's question. A retrieval is not proof of a citation, but it is the strongest AI visibility signal that exists, and prompts can't see it.
Training bots vs. search bots vs. assistants
Every crawler is classified by intent: AI Training (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Amazonbot), AI Search (BingBot, PetalBot, AppleBot), AI Assistants retrieving pages to answer questions, Data Scrapers, SEO Tools, and Social. The mix tells you whether you're being learned from, indexed, or actually cited - see the full breakdown in our guide to the top AI crawlers.
From measurement to answers
The data compounds. Watch which pages get crawled hardest, fix what gets ignored, ship the change, and watch the bots return for it. That loop - measure, learn, reframe - is answer engine optimization done with evidence instead of vibes. Agencies run it across every client site with white-label AI crawler reports, one login, up to 100 sites.
Full AI crawler tracking is a one-time $99 for life on any WordPress site - see pricing, or grab a founding-agency seat in the Founders Club. Five-minute install. The bots are already on your site; now you'll see them.
Their prompts cost more than your entire site
The Other Guys charge $30/mo for 15 prompts or $189/mo for 100 prompts across 4 AI search engines - and you pick the prompts, then hope someone real ever types them.
citAEOtion is $99/lifetime for one entire website: all the data from 57 AI bots - who hit you, what time, which page, which of their bots, and the HTTP status they got. Aggregated across every page you own, so you can see if what you are doing is actually working.
AI Crawler Tracking surfaces what prompts never can
Real bot behavior exposes the weak points quietly killing your AI visibility: Yoast settings, robots.txt, htaccess, sitemap, and RSS feeds. The bots show you what is broken, on every URL. A prompt score cannot see any of it.
For what "The Other Guy" charges to track 400 prompts, you track all the AI data on 25 entire websites here - with full white-label agency reporting.
Find out if AI can read your site.
Full tracking for $99 for life. Five-minute install.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I cancel anytime?
There is nothing to cancel anytime, because there is no subscription. Every plan is one payment, with no monthly fee and no annual renewal. Buy it once and it is yours for life.
Does it work on my site?
citAEOtion is built for WordPress. One plugin, five-minute install. Non-WordPress coverage is available on Enterprise.
What is AI crawler tracking?
AI crawler tracking is reading your server's own record of which AI bots requested your pages - GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and the rest - so you can see who is reading your site, how often, and what they take. It is the opposite of prompt-based "AI visibility" tools that ask a chatbot whether it mentions you and hand back a guess. Crawler tracking is the ground truth: an objective, timestamped record of what actually happened, by bot, by page, by day. citAEOtion reads that record and classifies every crawler so the numbers mean something instead of being a vanity score.
Who is citAEOtion NOT for?
If you only care about blue-link Google rankings and don't think AI search matters yet, skip it. citAEOtion is for operators who already know the answer engines are the new front page - and want to win there first.
Will it slow my site down?
No. The collector is lightweight and fires after the page is served, so visitors never wait on it.