# See Which AI Crawlers Are Reading Your Posts

*Every AI crawler that fetches your pages, labeled by the company behind it and why it came, alongside the readers that search engines and AI assistants send you.*

By [Paragraph](https://paragraph.com/@blog), 2026-09-10

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You can now see every AI crawler that reads your website, which company operates it, and whether it came to train a model, index you for search, or answer a reader's question. Analytics tools that run as a page script can't show you this, because crawlers never run page scripts. We record it at the edge instead, so the visit is counted as the page is served.

### How it works

*   **Two kinds of traffic, kept apart:** People who found you and bots that read you are different things, so they're counted separately rather than blended into one "referral" number.
    
*   **Who's reading:** 21 AI crawlers from 12 companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, Meta, Apple, and Amazon. Each hit is named, not bucketed as "bot traffic".
    
*   **Why they came:** Every crawler is labeled by intent. Training collects data for a model, search indexes you for later, and assistant means a reader asked something and the bot fetched your page to answer it.
    
*   **Which posts they take:** A most-crawled list shows which pieces the bots keep coming back to, which is rarely the ones you'd guess.
    
*   **Where readers come from:** Visits from 11 AI assistants, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini, are separated from 11 search engines, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Kagi.
    
*   **Down to one post:** Narrow any of it from your whole publication to a single piece to see how that one is being found.
    

Crawler tracking needs a live website on Paragraph, since the crawl has to reach a page we serve. The search and AI visitor split works on any publication, with no website required. Neither needs a paid plan.

Some AI assistants strip the referrer, so the real number of readers they send you is higher than what's shown. And crawler visits usually take a few days to appear after you publish, because the bots have to come back.

### Try Paragraph

We're building an owned media engine for your company. To take advantage of AI crawlers today, simply open Analytics, then visit Search & AI, to see who's been reading. See what else Paragraph can run for you at paragraph.com.

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*Originally published on [Paragraph](https://paragraph.com/@blog/see-which-ai-crawlers-are-reading-your-posts)*