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.
This is live server traffic from real tracked sites, classified by what each crawler is actually doing.
| Crawler | Category | Visits |
|---|---|---|
| Meta-ExternalAgent | AI training | 28,945 |
| BingBot | AI search | 18,722 |
| PetalBot | AI search | 17,260 |
| ClaudeBot | AI training | 15,529 |
| Amazonbot | AI training | 14,173 |
| GPTBot | AI training | 10,939 |
| AppleBot | AI search | 4,764 |
| ChatGPT-User | AI assistant | 3,429 |
| GoogleOther | Data scraper | 1,883 |
| Meta-WebIndexer | Data scraper | 1,836 |
"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 AI Training, AI Search, AI Assistant, and Data Scraper.
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.
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.
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.
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.
| Client site | Top crawler | Visits | 30-day |
|---|---|---|---|
| summitlawgroup.com Legal | ClaudeBot | 14,208 | ↑ 18% |
| brightpathdental.com Healthcare | GPTBot | 11,940 | ↑ 22% |
| coastalrealtygroup.com Real estate | BingBot | 9,761 | ↑ 9% |
| apexhvacpros.com Home services | Meta-ExternalAgent | 8,433 | ↑ 31% |
| lakesideveterinary.com Healthcare | PetalBot | 7,205 | ↓ 4% |
| metrofitnessclub.com Fitness | Amazonbot | 6,612 | ↑ 12% |
| gtaccountingllc.com Finance | ChatGPT-User | 5,984 | ↑ 27% |
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.
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Perplexity, Meta, Bingbot - identified and labeled the moment they hit a page.
Which pages, how often, and exactly when. Watch a content change get re-crawled.
See who is training on you and who is citing you live. They are not the same signal.
The same install that measures every AI crawler also tells them your site is open - so more of them show up.
citAEOtion - The GA for AI. 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.
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"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:
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 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.
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's a live citation being fetched for a real person's answer - the strongest AI visibility signal that exists, and prompts can't see it.
Every crawler is classified by intent: AI Training (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Amazonbot), AI Search (BingBot, PetalBot, AppleBot), AI Assistants fetching live citations, and plain data scrapers. 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.
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 starts at $34.99/mo 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.
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 $34.99/mo 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.
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.
The crawler mix tells you whether you are 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. Measure, learn, reframe, win.
A prompt score tells you where you rank. citAEOtion tells you how to become the answer.
Full tracking from $34.99. Five-minute install, cancel anytime.