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AI Visibility Analytics
Know when AI crawlers read your site.
MentionLeads AI Visibility tracks server-side requests from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, search indexes, and training crawlers. See which pages they requested and why they came.
Pro and AgencyServer-side signalNo visitor cookies
Illustrative data
AI discovery this weekKnow why they cameBrowser analytics cannot see these requests
Live answers5Someone waited for an answer
Indexing6Pages recorded for later
Training3Content collected by models
GChatGPT-User/pricingAnswerCClaudeBot/alternatives/customer-researchTrainingPPerplexityBot/blog/find-first-usersIndexing
01Answers
Live assistant fetchesA person may be waiting for an answer right now.
02Index
Search discoveryYour page is being recorded so it can be cited later.
03Train
Model collectionSeparate training crawlers from higher-intent requests.
How MentionLeads tracks AI crawlers server-side.
A small server-side companion catches the requests browser analytics misses, identifies the crawler, removes query strings, and aggregates the useful signal by page and day.
Add server middleware
Detect known crawler user-agents and send their user-agent plus requested URL in the background.
Keep responses fast
Use waitUntil or a fire-and-forget call so the tracking request never blocks the crawler or your page.
Read the intent
Compare answers, indexing, and training by bot and requested path inside Growth Analytics.
What AI Visibility Analytics includes.
Purpose, not one total
Separate assistant answer fetches from search indexing and model-training collection because they mean different things.
Bot identification
Recognize OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google, Bing, Apple, Meta, Common Crawl, and other known user-agents.
Page-level demand
See which pricing, alternative, guide, and product pages AI systems request most often.
Human + AI view
Keep browser visitors and server-side machine traffic separate, then compare both in the same analytics workspace.
Multiple sites
One scoped key can report crawler signals across multiple hosts, with www normalized into the same site.
Framework guides
Use ready-to-adapt examples for Next.js, Express, Cloudflare Workers, curl, and any backend that can send an HTTP request.
Designed for trust
Visibility signals without pretending they prove a citation.
A crawler request shows that an AI system asked your server for a page. That is valuable evidence, but it is not the same as a verified mention in a generated answer. MentionLeads keeps that distinction explicit.
- Only the host and path are retained; query strings and request bodies are dropped.
- There are no visitor IP addresses, client-side cookies, or per-request content logs.
- Hits are aggregated by bot, page, purpose, and day.
- User-agents can be spoofed, so counts are treated as strong signals, not verified-by-IP proof.
Know exactly what you’re getting.
No vague AI promises. These are the practical boundaries of the feature.
Why can’t normal browser analytics see AI crawlers?
AI crawlers usually request raw HTML directly from your server and do not execute your browser JavaScript. MentionLeads therefore uses a server-side middleware or backend call to record the request.
What is the difference between answers, indexing, and training?
Answer crawlers fetch a page while an assistant may be responding to a user. Indexing crawlers record pages so they can be found or cited later. Training crawlers collect content for model development. MentionLeads reports them separately.
Does a crawler visit mean my brand was cited?
No. It proves that a request with a recognized crawler user-agent reached your page, not that the resulting answer mentioned or cited you. User-agents can also be spoofed, so the dashboard presents this as a visibility signal.
What data is stored?
MentionLeads keeps the normalized host and path, identified bot, purpose, and aggregated daily count. Query strings, request bodies, visitor IP addresses, and cookies are not stored for crawler tracking.
Which plans include AI Visibility?
Server-side AI crawler tracking is included in Pro and Agency and appears inside Growth Analytics. New accounts receive three days of full Pro without a card.
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