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Honest analytics for people without an ads budget

One script tag, under 2KB, deferred. You get the numbers that actually change what you do next — and a panel no other analytics tool ships: which AI assistants have been reading your pages.

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From $9 a month for 50k events. No free tier, no ads, no reselling your traffic.

Pageviews

46,648

Unique visitors

29,353

AI crawler reads

2,749

1k2k3k4k

Jul 29Aug 5Aug 12Aug 19Aug 26Aug 27

PageviewsUnique visitorsAI crawlers (own scale)

Top pages

/docs/quickstart4,127
/blog/shipping-weekly3,894
/2,456
/docs/api1,783
/changelog1,204

Sources

Direct18,432
Hacker News9,127
Google7,841
GitHub3,216
Bluesky1,487

AI assistants

ClaudeBot342
GPTBot287
PerplexityBot156
GoogleOther94
Applebot38

Sample data from a demo site. Crawler traffic is verified by reverse DNS and never counted against your billed events.

Nobody else does this

Find out which AI assistants read you

People increasingly reach your writing through an assistant rather than a search result — and a normal analytics tool records none of it, because a crawler never runs your JavaScript.

TrueStat reads it server-side and separates GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther and Applebot from ordinary search crawlers, so you can see which pages the assistants keep coming back for.

Verified, not claimed: Anything can put GPTBot in a User-Agent header. We confirm the request against reverse DNS before it counts.
Per-page, not just totals: See that ClaudeBot re-read your changelog 40 times this week and ignored your pricing page entirely.
On every plan: Not reserved for the higher tier. It is the reason to pick TrueStat, so paywalling it would hide the only argument we have.
Never billed: Crawler hits are stored and shown to you but excluded from your event count. They are why you are here.

AI visibility

Last 7 days

ClaudeBot342 pages
GPTBot287 pages
PerplexityBot156 pages
GoogleOther94 pages
Applebot38 pages

Verified by reverse DNS — a User-Agent string alone is not proof.

1.8 KB: Script size, gzipped and deferred
0: Cookies set, so no consent banner
5: AI assistants identified by reverse DNS
EU: Where your data is stored, always

Installed in about a minute

No tag manager, no data layer, no SDK. If you can paste a line into your template, you are done.

Step 1
Add your domain
One field. We generate a site key scoped to that hostname, so a copied script tag cannot report data for someone else's site.

Step 2

Paste one script tag

<script defer
  data-site="ts_1a2b3c"
  src="https://truestat.io/js/t.js">
</script>

Step 3
Watch the first hit land
The install page waits for your first event and confirms it live, so you never have to guess whether the tag is working.

How we differ from what you are probably using

Feature comparison between Google Analytics, Plausible and TrueStat
	Google Analytics	Plausible	TrueStat
Cookie banner required	Yes	No	No
AI crawler reporting	No	No	Yes
Starts at	Free, ad-funded	Per pageview tier	$9/mo
Setup	Tag manager	Script	Script

Point it at one site and see for yourself

$9 a month covers 50k events, and the price moves in steps as your traffic does — you are never paying for a ceiling you are nowhere near. Pay yearly and it works out at $9 a month.

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