AI reads your site every day. Watch it happen.
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended — Crescive turns your server logs into a live, spoof-verified feed of exactly what AI systems read, what they skip, and whether that attention converts into cited answers and human visits.
Server logs, not JavaScript trackers.
AI crawlers don't execute JavaScript — a pixel-based analytics tool literally cannot see them. Crescive reads the source of truth: your edge and server logs.
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Connect in minutes
Point your CDN log stream at Crescive — Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, CloudFront, Fastly — or drop in our lightweight middleware / WordPress plugin. No page-weight cost, ever.
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Verify every bot
Each hit is checked against the operator's published IP ranges. For bots like Bingbot and CCBot, whose ranges are each unique to that crawler, a range match is enough on its own. Google publishes one IP range shared across its entire crawler fleet, so Google-Extended additionally requires a forward-confirmed reverse-DNS match before we count it verified — a range hit alone only narrows it to 'somewhere in Google's crawler infrastructure.' Spoofed 'GPTBot' traffic is flagged and excluded from your reports; agents with no published verification method yet (Bytespider, Amazonbot, Meta's crawlers) are still detected and labeled, honestly, as unverified.
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Correlate crawl to citation
The killer diagnostic: pages AI reads heavily but never cites, and pages it cites without recent reads. Both are fix lists.
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Attribute the humans
Referral analysis ties visits from AI surfaces back to the answers that sent them — the traffic your web analytics files under 'direct.'
From bot noise to a prioritized fix list.
Live crawler feed
Every verified AI bot hit — which bot, which page, when, how often — streaming and searchable.
Spoof verification
IP-range checks on every tracked crawler — sufficient on its own for bots like Bingbot and CCBot with a unique range, and backed by a reverse-DNS confirmation for Google-Extended, whose published range is shared across Google's whole crawler fleet. Fake crawlers are flagged and kept out of your numbers.
Crawl-vs-cite analysis
Heavily crawled but never cited? Cited but stale? Each mismatch becomes a concrete action.
Blind-spot detection
Pricing rendered client-side, docs behind logins, robots rules blocking the wrong bots — found automatically.
Referral attribution
Human sessions arriving from AI surfaces, tied to engines and — where measurable — to answers.
Submit to AI Search
Push new and updated URLs to AI-connected indexes the moment you publish, instead of waiting to be found.
Unlimited domains. Every plan. Including free.
Most platforms treat crawler analytics as an enterprise add-on. We treat it as infrastructure: every domain you connect makes your diagnostics sharper — so we don't meter it.
- No per-domain pricing, no surprise line items
- Agencies: connect every client property under one roof
- Log data stays yours — export or disconnect anytime
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domains on every plan, free included
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added to your page weight — logs, not scripts
24/7
verification against published bot registries
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new-content submission to AI search indexes
Crawler Analytics FAQ
Which crawlers do you identify?
All major AI-associated bots — including GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Bingbot, CCBot, Bytespider, Amazonbot, and Meta's crawlers — with the registry updated as new agents appear. Unknown agents are surfaced rather than silently dropped.
How does spoof verification work?
A hit counts as a given bot once its source IP matches the operator's published range — true for most tracked bots, including Bingbot and CCBot, whose ranges are each unique to that one crawler; CCBot's is additionally backed by a reverse-DNS check against Common Crawl's own domain. Google publishes a single IP range shared across its entire crawler fleet, so a range match alone only proves the hit came from Google's crawler infrastructure generally, not specifically Google-Extended; we additionally require a forward-confirmed reverse-DNS lookup resolving to Google's domain before counting a Google-Extended hit as verified. Bytespider, Amazonbot and Meta's crawlers don't yet publish a verifiable range or DNS method we can check against, so those are labeled detected, not verified — an honest gap, not a hidden one. Anything that lands outside every applicable published range is labeled spoofed and excluded from headline metrics — visible separately if you want it.
Does this slow down my site?
No. There is no JavaScript tag and no proxying of your traffic. We read log streams your infrastructure already produces, out of band.
What if I'm not on a supported CDN?
Use the drop-in middleware for Node/Next.js apps or the WordPress plugin; both report bot hits server-side. A plain log-upload path covers everything else.
Should I block AI crawlers instead?
Blocking is a legitimate strategy for some publishers — and you can't decide without data. Crawler Analytics shows you what each bot reads and what that access earns you in citations and referrals, so the allow/block call is yours to make with evidence.
Connect a domain and watch AI read your site — free.
Self-serve. Transparent pricing. No sales call required.