Our first WordPress plugin: Aiso AI Crawler Analytics
A free, purpose-built plugin that shows exactly which AI assistants — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google and more — crawl your WordPress site, broken down by assistant, page and intent. Think of it as your impressions for the AI-search era.
Why we built it: we were tired of repurposing security plugins
It started with a question we kept hearing from clients: “Is ChatGPT actually reading our pages?” It is a fair question — when buyers ask an AI assistant for recommendations, the assistant quietly fetches real web pages, and those fetches are the closest thing we have to an impression in the new search.
To answer it, we found ourselves doing the same awkward thing on every WordPress site: digging through a security plugin. We would open Wordfence or Cerber, filter the live traffic log, and squint for user-agents like GPTBot or PerplexityBot — or worse, SSH in and grep the raw access logs.
Those tools are excellent at what they do. But they are built to catch threats, not to measure AI-search performance. In a security log an AI crawler hit looks like noise to be filtered out. To a marketer, it is the signal: which assistant read which page, and when. Nothing on the market framed it that way, broke it down by platform and intent, or rolled it up across a portfolio of client sites. So we built it.
What it does
It reads the requests that actually hit your server — the ones that never show up in JavaScript analytics — and turns them into a clean dashboard.
Who it is for
Agencies
Prove AI-search work with server-side truth. One dashboard per client, rolled up across the portfolio, with white-label reporting through Aiso.
In-house SEO / AISO teams
See which content AI assistants actually read, catch new crawlers early, and tie publishing to AI visibility instead of guessing.
WordPress site owners
A free, private window into the AI traffic your site already gets — no account, no code, no third-party JavaScript required.
Two halves of the same picture
The plugin is the supply side: what AI assistants fetch from your site. Aiso adds the demand side — the real prompts people ask AI assistants, the fan-out queries those assistants run, and whether you actually get cited in the answer.
Put them together and you can connect the dots: a Perplexity-User fetch of your pricing page on Monday, and a Perplexity citation for a buying-intent prompt that week. Impressions + citations, finally in one story.
Get started in two minutes
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Install it
In wp-admin go to Plugins → Add New, search “Aiso AI Crawler Analytics”, then Install and Activate. (Or download it from WordPress.org.)
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Open the dashboard
Click “AI Crawlers” in the admin menu. It starts filling up as AI assistants visit your site.
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(Optional) Connect Aiso
Link a free Aiso account to keep long-term history and aggregate every site you manage in one place.
Want to see a hit right now? Request any page with a crawler user-agent:
curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GPTBot/1.1; +https://openai.com/gptbot)" https://yoursite.com/
Reload the dashboard and the GPTBot hit appears under ChatGPT (OpenAI).