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title: "AI Bot Analytics: Read Local Crawler Activity — citelayer®"
url: "https://citelayer.ai/docs/bot-analytics/"
date: 2026-03-19
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# AI Bot Analytics: Read Local Crawler Activity

Bot Analytics logs requests whose User-Agent matches a known AI-related pattern when they reach WordPress. Use it to inspect activity and collection gaps.

Read the dashboard
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1. Open citelayer® → Bot Analytics and choose a period.
2. Compare the trend with top matched bot names and categories.
3. Open Crawler Logs to inspect the paths behind a spike.
4. Keep the human AI Referrals tab separate from automated requests.

What a match establishes
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A match identifies a claimed User-Agent pattern, not a cryptographically verified provider. Some patterns are categorized as possible AI. Google-Extended is a robots control token, not a separate HTTP request User-Agent; its absence from logs says nothing about Gemini usage.

Repeated crawler requests are not human visitors or citations. [Read the log fields](/docs/crawler-logs/) before reporting results.

Collection and retention
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Logs live in the site’s database. IP logging is optional and off by default; records normally expire after 90 days. Full-page caches and CDNs can answer requests before the WordPress logging hook runs. See [cache setup](/docs/cache-compatibility/).

Use the data to decide a next check
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Inspect whether important paths return useful content and whether sudden changes match cache/WAF/deployment changes. Compare recognized referral visits separately. A quiet bot graph alone is not a reason to add unsupported schema or pad an article.

Next step
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Continue with [the quick start checklist](/docs/quick-start/), or [check the common questions](/docs/faq/). For a reproducible problem, send the plugin versions, affected URL, expected result and actual response through [Support](/support/). Do not include passwords, license keys or customer details.

Reviewed 6 October 2026 against citelayer® Free 1.13.5, WooCommerce add-on 1.2.19 and EDD add-on 1.2.1. Features depend on the active components and settings on your site.