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AI & crawlers

Know which AI reads your pages

Crawlers do not run JavaScript, so browser analytics never sees them. The server SDK records each read on your server and Plaintrace sorts it: AI training, AI answers, search or other.

Crawlers

Which AI reads your pages

  • GPTBotai_training/docs/api200
  • ClaudeBotai_training/pricing200
  • ChatGPT-Userai_answers/blog/trust200
  • Googlebotsearch/features/ai200
  • PerplexityBotai_answers/old-page404

Classes

Four kinds of reader

AI training

GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Applebot-Extended and others collecting pages for model training.

AI answers

ChatGPT, Claude and other assistants fetching a page to answer a user right now.

Search

Googlebot, Bingbot, Applebot and other indexers.

Other

Known crawlers that fit none of the above.

And the other way

AI assistants as a traffic source

Visits referred by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and other assistants get their own channel, so you can see what AI answers bring back.

middleware
const res = await analytics.handle(request, { waitUntil })
if (res) return res

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