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Sharing the AI panel

The AI visibility panel is on by default for a new share link.

Not available yet. This page describes the intended behaviour.

The AI visibility panel is on by default for a new share link. It is the part people share, so it would be an odd thing to hide behind a setting nobody finds.

Turn it off in the link's settings if you would rather not include it.

What a viewer sees when it is on

The same panel you see, over the range they select:

  • Crawlers — views per operator (OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google, …)

  • Pages read — which of your paths the crawlers fetched

  • Crawler types — the assistant / training / search split

  • Machine-readable exports — fetches of llms.txt and similar

Plus the two AI tiles: AI crawler views and Verified crawlers.

Before you share it publicly

Pages read names your paths. It is the same disclosure as the Top pages card — your URL structure, listed. If you turned Top pages off for privacy reasons, turn this off too, or you have disclosed the same thing through a different card.

The honesty problem when you share it

This is the section worth reading before you screenshot a number into a thread.

The AI panel undercounts, and a viewer has no way of knowing that. Most AI crawlers request raw HTML without running JavaScript, so a browser tracking script cannot see them. What the panel shows is a floor.

You know that because you read How reliable is it. Someone opening your share link has not.

So if you are publishing these numbers — in a post, a pitch, a report — say what they are:

"Crawler views recorded by TrueStat's browser script. Crawlers that fetch raw HTML without running JavaScript are not included, so this is a lower bound."

That is the accurate framing, and it is a stronger one than an unqualified number: it says you know what your instrument measures.

The comparison that always holds is relative — which operators, which pages, which direction over time. Those survive a constant undercount. The absolute count does not.

What a viewer cannot tell from the panel

They cannot tell what you excluded. A crawler family you have no traffic from and one you filtered out look the same — empty.

They cannot tell how much is missing. Neither can you. Nobody can put a number on the undercount, which is exactly why the framing above matters.

When the server-side path ships

A server-side reporting path is being built to capture the crawlers a browser script cannot see. When it ships and you enable it, your crawler numbers will step up.

If you have published a figure before then, expect the newer one not to match. That is missing traffic becoming visible, not growth — and it is worth saying so alongside the new number, for the same reason it is worth qualifying the old one.

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Last updated August 28, 2026