GA4 Cannot Track AI Crawler Traffic Due to JS-Only Architecture
Google Analytics 4 relies on JavaScript execution, making it structurally blind to AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Perplexity. Site owners cannot measure how much of their content is being consumed by LLM indexers or what pages attract AI traffic. As AI search grows, this blind spot prevents publishers from understanding their true reach and optimizing for AI citation.
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