How to measure AI crawler traffic in your server logs (and why the average lies)
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If you look after websites, AI crawlers are probably already your busiest bots, and almost nothing in your analytics shows them. Bots don't run JavaScript, so Google Analytics never sees them. You have to read the server logs. We do this every day across the sites running LovedByAI , a generative e…
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- 2026-10-07 18:27 · DEV Community — AI
How to measure AI crawler traffic in your server logs (and why the average lies)