AILYS Lens
AILYS Lens is an analytics plugin that treats AI crawler visits (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and others) as first-class data. As search traffic gives way to AI-generated answers, Lens gives you an instrument for a new question: is your site actually being read by AI?
Most analytics tools filter bots out. Lens does the opposite — it records nothing but AI crawlers, and shows you not just whether they visit, but how far they get. A crawler that only fetches robots.txt has not read your content. That distinction — visiting is not reading — is what this plugin is built to measure.
Features
- A dashboard that answers one question at a glance: “In the last 30 days, your site was read by AI N times”
- AI crawlers classified by purpose: Training (collection for model training) / AI Search (indexing for AI search) / User Fetch (real-time retrieval to answer a user’s question)
- Per-crawler daily charts, last-visit timestamps, and spoofing verification (published IP ranges / reverse DNS)
- Top 10 pages read by AI
- A quick check of whether your robots.txt is blocking AI crawlers
- Manual import of server access logs (combined log format, .gz supported) to fill gaps in cached environments
- Weekly report email (opt-in): once a week, your own server sends you the observed numbers via
wp_mail(). The email travels from your server to your inbox — nothing is sent externally
Design principles
- Lightness is a feature: non-crawler requests pass through in under 1 millisecond, and the plugin loads zero CSS/JS on your site’s front end
- Human visitors are never tracked. Only AI crawler requests are recorded
- All data stays in your own server’s database. Nothing is sent externally
- No claims beyond the evidence: the dashboard visually distinguishes visits verified via published IP ranges / reverse DNS from records matched by user-agent string alone
- AILYS Lens is free, permanently. Every feature runs locally on your server, and that is a design commitment, not a pricing decision waiting to happen. There is no paid tier inside this plugin, and there never will be
About AILYS Doctor (an external service operated by the plugin’s developer)
The developer of this plugin also operates AILYS Doctor (https://ailys.app/doctor), a separate diagnostic service. The dashboard, the weekly report email, and the plugin’s settings page contain a link to it. The link includes your site URL as a query parameter so the diagnosis form can be pre-filled — this is transmitted only if you click the link, by your browser, never by the plugin. Doctor is an external service: the diagnosis runs on ailys.app. This plugin works fully without Doctor, and this plugin never sends any data to ailys.app. No tracking pixels, no open-rate measurement, no shortened URLs are used.
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