Bot & Crawler Analytics
AI crawlers now consume more bandwidth than human visitors on many sites. BetterMeter separates bot traffic from real users and shows you exactly which crawlers are indexing your content — and how much server budget they consume.
Bot categories
BetterMeter automatically classifies every bot into one of four categories based on its user-agent signature. This lets you filter and compare crawl behavior across categories.
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, Bytespider, CCBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended
Crawlers that feed AI training data and retrieval systems
Googlebot, Bingbot, DuckDuckBot, Applebot, Baiduspider, YandexBot
Traditional search engine indexing bots
UptimeRobot, Pingdom, StatusCake
Uptime and performance monitoring services
Generic crawler/spider/scraper patterns
Unclassified automated traffic
Why bot analytics matter
- 01 AI crawlers can consume significantly more bandwidth than human visitors
- 02 Knowing which bots index your content helps you optimize your robots.txt
- 03 Separating bot traffic from real users makes your analytics accurate
- 04 Track crawl frequency to detect spikes that may indicate scraping
Key metrics
For each bot, BetterMeter tracks total requests, unique pages crawled, crawl frequency, and which sections of your site they visit most. Filter by category or individual bot name, and compare across time periods to spot trends.