How many people did AI assistants send you last month?
Almost nobody can answer that about their own site. The visits are real, they just do not appear
on any screen you look at. This counts them, on your site, and shows you one small table:
seventeen assistants told apart by name, day by day.
What this looks like on a real site
Ninety days on one of our own content sites, measured in Google Analytics to 12 September 2026:
90ChatGPT
26Perplexity
19Copilot
7Claude
10Gemini and six others
159 visits and 3 enquiries from ten different assistants, against 826 visits and 13 enquiries
from Google over the same window. Small, and growing. The point is not the size: it is that
the number existed for months before anybody looked at it.
Start with what your site runs on
Pick the one you use, or let us look at your address and tell you.
We read one public page, the way a browser does, and store nothing.
If you would rather not touch the site yourself
Three ways, safest first.
Send it to whoever looks after your site. Give them the address of this page. Everything
they need is on it, and it takes them a couple of minutes.
Ask an assistant to do it while you watch. Open your site’s admin in your browser, start
Claude in that same browser, and ask it to install the plugin or paste the line. It clicks in
your window, you see every step, and you have handed nobody a password.
On WordPress, give an assistant an application password. That is a separate one-time
password you create in your own profile in four clicks and delete with one. It does not open
your email, it cannot be used to log in as you, and you can revoke it the moment the work is done.
What we will never tell you to do: hand your real admin password to an assistant, to us, or to
anyone else. It is the key to your whole business. WordPress has application passwords for
exactly this reason, and on every other platform the assistant can work in a browser you are
already signed into.
Frequently asked questions
Why does my analytics not show this already?
It usually does, buried. A visit from ChatGPT arrives as a referral from chatgpt.com, one row among hundreds that nobody opens, and many of these visits land in "direct" because the assistant strips the referrer. Nothing is wrong with your analytics: the number is simply not on any screen you look at.
What exactly is counted?
A visit from a person who clicked through to you from an assistant: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, NotebookLM, Grok, You.com, Qwen, Doubao, Alice, Le Chat and their other addresses. One visit is counted once even if the person reads five pages. Somebody browsing with JavaScript switched off is not counted, which is a handful of people in a hundred.
What is stored, and where?
On WordPress, everything stays in your own site’s database: the name of the assistant, the day, and a number. No visitor identifier, no cookie, no address, and nothing leaves your site. The plugin is open source, so this is checkable rather than a promise.
Does it slow my site down?
No. Three lines of script run in the visitor’s browser, and they send one request only when the visitor came from an assistant. For everybody else nothing happens at all. It also keeps working behind a page cache or a CDN, where counting during the page build would miss most of the traffic.
What if the number turns out to be zero?
Then you have learned something worth knowing, and the free AI visibility check on this site tells you why in ten seconds. Zero is an answer, and it is the one most sites get in their first weeks.
Once you have the number
If it is low or zero, the reason is usually on the site rather than in the assistants. The
free visibility check scores what an answer engine needs before it
quotes a page, and takes ten seconds. From there the
9 USD fix list writes every problem out as a task you can
hand to anyone.