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AI traffic: the AI Assistants channel and AI on your site

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Opti-Behavior shows two sides of AI on your site: the visitors AI assistants send you (the AI Assistants traffic channel) and the AI robots that read your pages (the Audience Insights / AI row on Traffic). Both are Free.

Before you start #

  • Opti-Behavior 1.11.0 or later (Free is enough).
  • Open Opti-Behavior → Traffic.

The AI Assistants channel (Free) #

Opti-Behavior traffic filters with the Traffic Channel set to AI Assistants.
Filter a screen on AI visitors: Pages & Traffic → Traffic Channel → AI Assistants.

A visit is counted in AI Assistants when it comes from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, Grok, Meta AI or You.com. Links tagged with utm_source=chatgpt.com, perplexity, claude.ai or copilot.microsoft.com count there too.

  • A paid click stays in Paid Ads, even from an AI platform.
  • Google AI Overviews stay in Organic Search: Google does not tell them apart from normal results.

Audience Insights / AI: AI robots on your site (Free) #

The Audience Insights / AI row of Opti-Behavior: which AIs read the site, what AI reads and who it sends, and why AIs visit.
The three AI widgets on Traffic (test site). Compare AI passes with Visitors sent: pages read by AI do not always receive visitors.

The row has three widgets:

WidgetWhat it shows
Which AIs read your siteThe AI robots that read your pages, grouped by company.
What AI reads and who it sendsThe 50 pages AI reads most: total pages read, AI passes per page and the visitors sent to each page.
Why AIs visitThe intent of the AI passes (why the robot came).
The What AI reads and who it sends widget: pages read by AI robots, their AI passes and the visitors sent to each page.
For each page, read AI passes and Visitors sent side by side.

How filters apply #

  • The filter panel (country, device…) narrows Visitors sent only.
  • AI passes follow the period only: a robot has no country or device.

What is stored #

AI passes are kept for 12 months as daily counters. No IP address, no user agent and no referrer is stored for them.

In the site report #

The site report has the same AI section. See Site report: print or save as PDF.

Expected result #

Visits from AI assistants appear in the AI Assistants channel, and the Audience Insights / AI row lists the AI robots that read your pages over the chosen period.

FAQ #

AI robots read my pages, but AI Assistants shows 0 visits. #

Reading a page and sending a visitor are two different things. A robot pass is counted in the AI row; a visit is counted only when a person clicks a link in the assistant.

Why does the country filter not change AI passes? #

A robot has no country or device, so AI passes follow the period only.

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