AI activity

AI systems visit sites for different reasons. Stage tells them apart and reports them separately from human traffic.

Four kinds

Kind	What it is
For a person	An assistant fetched your page because a real person asked it something. This is the one that means a person was pointed at you
Search	An AI search product building its index
Training	A crawler collecting data to train models
Agent	An automated agent carrying out a task

The AI activity card in the Performance tool shows:

Crawl volume by company. How much each AI company reads your site. It is volume, not interest: a company can be top here without ever sending you anyone.
Per page: human views, crawls, and live fetches. Live is the number that matters. It counts the times an assistant fetched that page for a real person.

The Takeaways card sums it up as the number of times assistants fetched the site for real people.

No visitor address is stored for any of this, and the consent prompt does not apply, because a crawler is not a person.

Visits, consent, privacy.