What is AI crawler tracking?

AI crawler tracking is reading your server's own record of which AI bots requested your pages - GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and the rest - so you can see who is reading your site, how often, and what they take. It is the opposite of prompt-based "AI visibility" tools that ask a chatbot whether it mentions you and hand back a guess. Crawler tracking is the ground truth: an objective, timestamped record of what actually happened, by bot, by page, by day. citAEOtion reads that record and classifies every crawler so the numbers mean something instead of being a vanity score.