AI Sessions

AI crawler session analytics from first-party evidence.

Move beyond aggregate bot counts. Group crawler events into sessions, inspect page sequences and inferred intent, and see which Brand Intelligence version each request actually received.

Human traffic stays unchanged · Bot verification is labeled by integration

A bot count cannot tell you what the crawler tried to understand.

Traditional server logs scatter a visit across rows. Aggregate dashboards compress it into requests per day. Neither view shows the path through your site, which artifact was returned, or whether the traffic can be treated as verified. AI Sessions keeps those distinctions visible.

  • Group related requests into a page sequence instead of counting isolated hits.
  • Separate observed user-agent claims from verified Full DNS traffic.
  • Connect each request with the response path and published artifact available at that time.

See the visit, the delivery, and the limits of what each signal proves.

Crawler analytics is most useful when it shows both the behavior you observed and the conclusions the evidence cannot support on its own.

01

Capture first-party crawler events.

Record detected AI bot requests at the point where they reach your integration. Keep the crawler identity, requested URL, response, and delivery context together as first-party evidence.

  • Bot and user-agent context
  • Requested page and status
  • Timestamped edge events
02

Group requests into meaningful sessions.

Turn isolated log lines into a sequence of related activity. See the pages visited, the order of requests, session duration, and an explicitly labeled intent inference.

  • Sessionized journeys
  • Page sequence
  • Inferred intent
03

Inspect what the crawler received.

Connect a request to the route and Brand Intelligence artifact served at that moment. Delivery evidence helps distinguish no crawl, wrong route, stale version, and successful receipt.

  • Page-level delivery logs
  • Artifact and version context
  • Integration-aware verification

Follow a crawler from detection through delivery and session review.

The data plane serves from the edge and records the event asynchronously. Session building happens later, so logging does not add a control-plane dependency to the live crawler request.

  1. 01

    Detect

    Identify a supported AI crawler from request context and apply the verification rules available for the integration method.

    Bot event
  2. 02

    Serve

    Resolve the requested route and return the appropriate origin response or published Brand Intelligence artifact.

    Delivery record
  3. 03

    Sessionize

    Group related events into a visit sequence and calculate the pages, timing, and observable behavior of the crawl.

    Crawler session
  4. 04

    Interpret

    Review the session alongside Tracker results and published versions without treating access as proof of citation.

    Operational evidence

Do not collapse identity, delivery, and outcomes into one number.

A claimed bot identity, a successfully delivered artifact, and a later model answer are related but different observations. Ooky preserves each layer so teams can reason about where a problem occurred.

Intent is inferred from observed request behavior. It is labeled as inference, not presented as a fact about the crawler provider's internal purpose.

Identity Who requested

See the detected crawler and whether the integration can support verified classification.

Journey What it explored

Review related URLs, timing, response codes, and the inferred purpose of the session.

Delivery What it received

Inspect whether the response came from the origin or a particular published intelligence version.

Outcome What models later said

Use Brand Tracker for answer evidence rather than assuming a successful crawl guarantees a citation.

What teams ask before they start.

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What is an AI crawler session?+

An AI crawler session is a group of related bot request events that represents one observed visit sequence. It can include the crawler identity, pages requested, timing, responses, and the content artifacts delivered during that sequence.

Can Ooky verify that every request came from the claimed bot?+

No integration can make the same verification claim. Ooky's managed Full DNS path can mark traffic verified under its stricter ingestion path. SDK, WordPress, and customer-managed Worker events remain unverified claimed user-agent traffic, which is shown as a different evidence class.

Does a crawler visit mean my brand will appear in an AI answer?+

No. A visit proves that a crawler requested content and, when delivery records are available, what it received. Training, indexing, retrieval, citation, and model-answer behavior happen later and are controlled by the AI provider. Brand Tracker measures the answer separately.

Does AI Sessions track human visitors?+

AI Sessions is designed around detected bot traffic. Human traffic continues to the origin unchanged. The product view focuses on crawler events and the sessions built from those events rather than ordinary human web analytics.

Which integration provides the strongest evidence?+

Managed Full DNS provides the fullest request-path context and can support verified-bot classification. SDK, WordPress, and customer-managed Worker paths are still useful for observing requests and delivery, but their authentication model intentionally does not assert that a claimed user agent is verified.

Start with the evidence you have

See the answer. Make a reviewed change. Measure what happens next.

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