How does citAEOtion detect AI crawlers?

citAEOtion works at the server level, not in the browser. Tools like Google Analytics run JavaScript in the visitor's browser, but AI crawlers fetch your raw HTML and never run JavaScript - Vercel found no JavaScript execution across more than a billion AI crawler requests - so browser analytics never see them. citAEOtion reads your server's record of every request: the bot's user-agent, the exact page, the timestamp, and the response code. That captures every crawler at the network level, including the ones a tracking pixel would miss entirely.