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How to track AI traffic to your website: referrals and crawlers
AI traffic comes in two forms: visitors that AI answers send you, and crawlers like GPTBot that index your site. Here's how to track both with Lodd.
Web analytics for Codex and OpenAI agents
Connect web analytics to Codex CLI or custom OpenAI agents. MCP server for Codex, REST API for custom builds. 42 tools, free up to 2,500 events/mo.
PostHog vs Lodd: 446 tools vs 42 (and when fewer is better)
PostHog's MCP has 446 tools across analytics, feature flags, experiments, and error tracking. Lodd has 42, all web analytics. Here's when each fits.
Build a marketing agent in n8n with analytics, web search, and AI visibility testing
Build an AI marketing agent in n8n that pulls web analytics via MCP, searches for mentions, tests whether ChatGPT knows you exist, and reports to Slack weekly.
Simple GA4 alternative for developers who use Claude
GA4 takes 30 minutes to set up, needs GCP credentials for MCP, and buries simple questions behind complex UIs. Here's a simpler option for developers.
Plausible alternative with MCP for AI agents
Plausible is great for privacy-friendly analytics but has no official MCP server. Lodd gives your AI agent direct access to traffic data via 42 MCP tools.
How to add web analytics to Cursor
Give your Cursor agent web analytics with one MCP config change. 42 tools for traffic, sources, events, and funnels. Two-minute setup, free tier.
Give your workflows analytics context with 3 REST API calls
Add website analytics to any automation with Lodd's REST API. Three calls for traffic, pages, and sources. Example: auto-create GitHub issues when bounce rate spikes.
Replace your monthly analytics reports with a single Trigger.dev task
Automate monthly analytics reports with a single Trigger.dev task. TypeScript, three API calls, Resend for email. 60 lines, deploy once, runs itself.
How to check your website traffic from Claude Code
Add web analytics to Claude Code in two minutes. Your agent gets 42 MCP tools for traffic, sources, funnels, and events — no dashboard needed.
How to make your AI agent analytics-aware
Add a few lines to your CLAUDE.md and your coding agent starts checking traffic after deploys, adding tracking to new UI, and flagging conversion issues. Here's the snippet.
Give your agent more context: Google Search Console + website analytics via MCP
Give your AI agent search ranking data alongside website analytics. Connect Google Search Console via MCP in 10 minutes and let your agent correlate queries, traffic, and conversions in one session.
Every analytics tool with an MCP, compared
Six analytics platforms have MCP servers. Most aren't very good. PostHog has 446 tools, Plausible has community wrappers, GA4 needs GCP credentials. Here's what each one actually does.
What your AI agent can write, create, and deploy right now
We audited 15 MCP servers for write access. Stripe can process refunds, Shopify can manage inventory, WordPress can't edit a post. Here's what works and where the chain breaks.
What is headless analytics?
Headless analytics is web analytics without a dashboard. Data is accessed through APIs that AI agents query directly alongside databases, payment providers, and code — not through a browser UI.