Launched this week
EdgeShaping Lite
GA4 can't see AI crawlers. This WordPress plugin can.
5 followers
GA4 can't see AI crawlers. This WordPress plugin can.
5 followers
GA4 relies on JavaScript, so it mostly can't see AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Perplexity visiting your site. EdgeShaping Lite logs AI bot visits at the PHP layer instead — no JS dependency — so you can see which bots read which pages, and when. - Dictionary-based AI bot detection - Dashboard with bot frequency ranking + most-visited pages - Full access log, CSV export - AHQG Matrix: cross AI visits with human search clicks (GSC) to spot pages AI loves that humans haven't found yet
Quick update for anyone following along 👋
A few people asked how the AHQG Matrix actually works, so here's
the short version:
It plots every page on two axes — how often AI bots crawl it, vs.
how often humans click it from search (via Search Console). That
gives you 4 quadrants:
- Pages AI loves but humans haven't found yet
- Pages humans love but AI ignores
- Pages both find
- Pages neither finds
The idea is to catch the first one before your traffic dashboards
would ever show it — since most of that AI traffic doesn't run JS
and never hits GA4 in the first place.
Appreciate everyone who's tried it so far — feedback welcome, bugs
and all.
Quick number for context: when I cross-checked GA4's pageview count against raw server logs filtered for known AI crawlers, the AI traffic was running at roughly 9x what GA4 showed. Not 9% more — 9 times. That gap is the whole reason this plugin exists.