You published a comparison page two weeks ago. Your tracking says no AI engine cites it yet. Fair enough. But here is the question nobody can answer for you: has any AI even read it?
If ChatGPT never opened the page, the problem is not your content. It is that the page was never in the running.
What does the AI crawlers page show?
Mentionable reads the visits AI bots make to your site and shows, on one page, who came, what they read and what it led to.
Four numbers at the top. Total AI bot visits over the period, compared with the previous one, then the same visits split into answer reads, search indexing and training crawls.
Visits over time. A chart per day and per kind of visit. Orange lines mark the days you published a page or logged an action, so you compare before and after without guessing.
The most crawled pages. Every page AI bots loaded, with its visits, its answer reads, the number of times it is cited in AI answers on your tracked questions, and the day of its last visit. Pages published with Mentionable carry a marker. You can search a page, or filter by the HTTP code your site served.
Visits per bot. Which bots came, and how often. Filters keep one company (OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity…) or one bot.
Errors served to AI bots. The pages that answered an AI bot with an error. A page that cannot be read cannot be cited.
What are the three kinds of AI bot visits?
Not every AI visit means the same thing, which is why Mentionable never adds them up into one vanity number.
- Answer reads. An AI fetched the page while answering someone: ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User. A real question is behind the visit. It is the closest signal to an answer built on your page.
- Search indexing. An engine adds the page to its search index: OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Applebot. Without indexing, the page cannot come up in answers.
- Training crawls. A company collects the page to train future models: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider, CCBot. No direct effect on today's answers.
A page with plenty of training crawls and no answer reads is known to the models, but nobody's question leads to it yet.
Which AI bots does Mentionable track?
The bots of the companies whose assistants your customers use:
| Company | Bots |
|---|---|
| OpenAI | GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User |
| Anthropic | ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User |
| Perplexity | PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User |
| Mistral | MistralAI-User |
| DuckDuckGo | DuckAssistBot |
| Apple | Applebot |
| Amazon | Amazonbot |
| Meta | Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher |
| ByteDance | Bytespider |
| Common Crawl | CCBot |
How long does it take for a new page to be read, then cited?
Open any page from the table and you get its full story: visits per day, the HTTP codes it served to AI bots, and the engines that cite it.
For a page you published with Mentionable, a timeline lines up three dates: the publication, the first AI visit (and which bot made it), and the first citation (and which engine gave it), each counted in days after publication. When a step has not happened yet, the timeline says so.
That is how you tell a page that is waiting to be found from a page that was read and still not chosen.
How do I connect Cloudflare?
Your site has to be served through Cloudflare with the proxy on, the orange cloud. A site that only uses Cloudflare for DNS sends no visits.
- Open AI crawlers in your project and click Connect Cloudflare.
- Approve the read-only access in Cloudflare. It reads your zones and their analytics, nothing else.
- Pick the zone that serves your site.
Mentionable then fetches the last 7 days of visits, which takes a few seconds, and syncs every night after that. You can change the zone, reconnect or disconnect from the bottom of the page. Disconnecting stops the sync and keeps the history.
What is the difference between AI crawlers and AI traffic?
AI crawlers are bots. AI traffic is people.
The AI crawlers page counts the visits AI bots make to read, index or collect your pages, from Cloudflare. The AI visits page counts the people who click a link in an AI answer and land on your site, from Google Analytics. One tells you whether the engines read you, the other whether their answers send you visitors.
Can my own AI read the crawler data?
Yes, through the Mentionable MCP server. The get_ai_crawler_overview, list_ai_crawler_pages, get_ai_crawler_page and list_ai_crawler_visits tools return the same visits, split by kind, crossed with each page's citations, with the delay from publication to first visit and first citation for pages published with Mentionable.
Which plans include AI crawler tracking?
All of them, and the 7-day free trial too. The only requirement is a site served through Cloudflare. Read-only team members see the page once someone with edit rights has connected it.