How to see which AI crawlers read your website (5 ways, with copy-paste commands)

Description and use

<p><em>Originally published on <a href="https://pagelens.io/blog/how-to-see-ai-crawlers-on-your-website" rel="noopener noreferrer">pagelens.io</a>.</em></p> <p>AI crawlers read websites all day, and almost no site owner can see it. The reason is simple: analytics tools count visitors with JavaScript that runs in a browser, and AI crawlers download the HTML without running any JavaScript. To see them you have to look where the request arrives: your server or your CDN.</p> <p>Here are five ways to do that, starting with the ones that cost nothing.</p> <h2> First: which bots to look for </h2> <p>

Problem

<p><em>Originally published on <a href="https://pagelens.io/blog/how-to-see-ai-crawlers-on-your-website" rel="noopener noreferrer">pagelens.io</a>.</em></p> <p>AI crawlers read websites all day, and almost no site owner can see it. The reason is simple: analytics tools count visitors with JavaScript that runs in a browser, and AI crawlers download the HTML without running any JavaScript. To see them you have to look where the request arrives: your server or your CDN.</p> <p>Here are five ways to do that, starting with the ones that cost nothing.</p> <h2> First: which bots to look for </h2> <p>

Outcome

<p><em>Originally published on <a href="https://pagelens.io/blog/how-to-see-ai-crawlers-on-your-website" rel="noopener noreferrer">pagelens.io</a>.</em></p> <p>AI crawlers read websites all day, and almost no site owner can see it. The reason is simple: analytics tools count visitors with JavaScript that runs in a browser, and AI crawlers download the HTML without running any JavaScript. To see them you have to look where the request arrives: your server or your CDN.</p> <p>Here are five ways to do that, starting with the ones that cost nothing.</p> <h2> First: which bots to look for </h2> <p>

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How to see which AI crawlers read your website (5 ways, with copy-paste commands)

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