Question 1

What is SearchSeal?

Accepted Answer

SearchSeal is simple, privacy-friendly website analytics with AI visibility built in. It shows your visitors, pageviews, sources, goals, revenue, and AI referrals. A separate evidence module records observed crawler requests and HTTP outcomes.

Question 2

What does SearchSeal measure?

Accepted Answer

The analytics module measures pageviews, privacy-safe daily visitors and sessions, acquisition sources, goals, conversion rates, and same-day revenue attribution. The separate crawler module records which AI crawlers reach your site, which pages they request, and the HTTP outcome.

Question 3

How do I set it up?

Accepted Answer

Add the lightweight SearchSeal tracker to start website analytics. Connect Cloudflare, Vercel, or an HTTPS access-log feed when you also want crawler evidence. The two data sources remain separate.

Question 4

Is SearchSeal privacy-friendly?

Accepted Answer

SearchSeal uses no cookies or cross-day visitor identity. Raw IP addresses, full user agents, and URL query strings outside approved campaign fields are discarded at collection. Daily visitor identifiers rotate and cannot be joined across days.

Question 5

How is this different from Google Analytics?

Accepted Answer

SearchSeal focuses on the small set of website metrics needed to understand acquisition and outcomes, then adds first-party AI referral and crawler evidence. It avoids cross-day visitor profiles, session replay, advertising audiences, and synthetic visibility scores.

Question 6

How is this different from AI visibility tools?

Accepted Answer

Most AI visibility tools ask chatbots questions about a brand and grade the answers. SearchSeal does not poll chatbots. It measures observed human referrals, conversions, and crawler requests on your own site. A referral does not prove that crawling caused the visit, and a crawler request does not prove indexing or citation.

Question 7

What does it cost?

Accepted Answer

Under 1,000 pageviews a month on one site is free, forever. Above that, every plan gets every feature, priced by monthly pageviews: single site from $8, up to 10 sites from $18. 14-day free trial, no credit card.

Crawler	Purpose	Requests	Share
OpenAI OAI-SearchBot	Search	693,693	54%
OpenAI ChatGPT-User	Assistant	398,231	31%
Perplexity PerplexityBot	Search	115,616	9%
Anthropic Claude-User	Assistant	57,808	5%

Route	Requests	Share
/	244,077	19%
/products/*	179,846	14%
/robots.txt	102,769	8%
/blog/*	89,923	7%

Website analytics for the AI web

Measure humans and crawlers separately

Track AI referrals

Verify crawler access

Implement crawler tracking

One install, two kinds of evidence

Install analytics

Measure outcomes

Add crawler evidence

SearchSeal for AI agents

Frequently asked questions

Know which traffic becomes outcomes