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EdgeShaping Lite
GA4 can't see AI crawlers. This WordPress plugin can.
GA4 relies on JavaScript, so it mostly can't see AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Perplexity visiting your site. EdgeShaping Lite logs AI bot visits at the PHP layer instead — no JS dependency — so you can see which bots read which pages, and when. - Dictionary-based AI bot detection - Dashboard with bot frequency ranking + most-visited pages - Full access log, CSV export - AHQG Matrix: cross AI visits with human search clicks (GSC) to spot pages AI loves that humans haven't found yet
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I built this after noticing something odd in my own server logs:
AI crawlers were visiting my site ~9x more often than what GA4 was
reporting. GA4 just can't see most of this traffic — it depends on
JavaScript execution, and most AI bots don't run JS.
So I built EdgeShaping Lite to log AI bot visits at the PHP layer
instead. Install → activate → see your AI traffic immediately, no
config needed.
The AHQG Matrix feature (optional, needs Search Console) goes one
step further: it cross-references AI bot visits with human search
clicks, so you can spot pages AI is reading heavily that humans
haven't discovered yet (and the reverse).
Free and open on WordPress.org. Would love your feedback, especially
if you find bugs or have ideas for the bot dictionary (currently 65+
known AI agents).
Quick number for context: when I cross-checked GA4's pageview count against raw server logs filtered for known AI crawlers, the AI traffic was running at roughly 9x what GA4 showed. Not 9% more — 9 times. That gap is the whole reason this plugin exists.
Quick update for anyone following along 👋
A few people asked how the AHQG Matrix actually works, so here's
the short version:
It plots every page on two axes — how often AI bots crawl it, vs.
how often humans click it from search (via Search Console). That
gives you 4 quadrants:
- Pages AI loves but humans haven't found yet
- Pages humans love but AI ignores
- Pages both find
- Pages neither finds
The idea is to catch the first one before your traffic dashboards
would ever show it — since most of that AI traffic doesn't run JS
and never hits GA4 in the first place.
Appreciate everyone who's tried it so far — feedback welcome, bugs
and all.
About EdgeShaping Lite on Product Hunt
“GA4 can't see AI crawlers. This WordPress plugin can.”
EdgeShaping Lite was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #96 on the daily leaderboard. GA4 relies on JavaScript, so it mostly can't see AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Perplexity visiting your site. EdgeShaping Lite logs AI bot visits at the PHP layer instead — no JS dependency — so you can see which bots read which pages, and when. - Dictionary-based AI bot detection - Dashboard with bot frequency ranking + most-visited pages - Full access log, CSV export - AHQG Matrix: cross AI visits with human search clicks (GSC) to spot pages AI loves that humans haven't found yet
EdgeShaping Lite was featured in WordPress (21.5k followers), Developer Tools (515.4k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (473.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 182.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted EdgeShaping Lite?
EdgeShaping Lite was hunted by Kenichi Uchiumi. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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