An AI crawl monitor tracks every visit from AI crawlers to your website. Before an AI model can recommend you, its crawler has to read your site first. Most AI crawlers don’t run JavaScript, so tools like Google Analytics never see them. The only way to catch these visits is at a server level, matching each request’s user agent against a list of known AI crawlers.
Best practices:
- Log crawler visits server side, not with JavaScript
- Watch which pages AI crawlers hit most
- Compare crawler activity before and after publishing new content
How to track AI crawlers on your website(s)
Tracking AI crawlers means capturing requests at the server layer, normally requires going through raw server logs or writing your own filtering scripts. You can do it manually, or you can use a collector that logs, labels, and charts it all for you. Next I’ll show you how I monitor AI crawl traffic using Cairrot.
Monitoring AI crawlers with Cairrot
Head to Search in the left sidebar, then select Crawler Hits in your dashboard. Every AI crawler visits shows up here automatically, with charts creaking down which LLMS are crawling and which paths they hit most.
Search and filter the logs
Every hit is logged with the date, the crawler, and the exact path it requested. You can searchthe query builder, Lucene syntax, or plain English with AI search mode, filter out WordPress noise, and export everything to CSV.
FAQ
Is the AI crawl monitor included in every Cairrot plan?
Yes, every paid Cairrot plan includes crawler logging, the Crawler Hits dashboard, and exports.
Why doesn’t Google Analytics show AI crawler visits?
AI crawlers don’t execute JavaScript, so any analytics tool that relies on a tracking script is blind to them.
Which AI crawlers does Cairrot track?
Cairrot matches against a curated list of AI crawlers including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google Extended, Amazonbot, and more, with the list refreshed daily.
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