HOW TO MONITOR AI BOTS IN THE LOG FILE ANALYSER

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Log file analysis shows how AI bots interact with a site and delivers visibility that standard analytics tools cannot match. The Screaming Frog Log File Analyser verifies AI bots, tracks crawl patterns, compares bot types, and surfaces issues such as high 4XX or 5XX errors or aggressive crawling. It also shows which content is used for training, indexing, or real time citations and highlights bandwidth use and carbon impact from AI crawlers. Log data can be combined with crawl data to uncover orphaned pages, detect pages bots ignore, and measure how much of a site AI bots actually access.