AI traffic analytics: the visits AI answers actually send.
Mentionova reads your GA4, pulls ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Claude out of the Referral bucket, and shows each engine's visits by week, the pages they land on, and how those visitors convert.
First growth signal in ~2 minutes · no pixel to install
Replay: twelve weeks of NorthPay's GA4 sessions, classified by AI engine, then joined to landing pages and conversion.
The problem
Leadership asks what AI search sends.GA4 files it under Referral.
GA4 puts every visit from ChatGPT and Perplexity in the Referral bucket, next to partner links and forum posts. So the honest answer to whether AI search is worth the budget is usually a guess.
Where AI search sends buyers
Referral hides it. Follow the visit.
Twelve weeks of NorthPay's GA4 sessions: split out of Referral by engine, followed to the pages they landed on, and on to sign-ups.
01 · GA4 already has these visits. It files them under Referral.
02 · Mentionova splits out the AI engines, one line each.
03 · Every AI visit, followed to the page it landed on.
04 · …and on to sign-ups, from GA4's own key events.
05 · Perplexity → the orchestration guide: the fastest-growing flow.
Orchestration guide/guides/payment-orchestration
1,180 AI visits· 3.1% convert
↑ Perplexity · +156% in 12 weeks
Chargeback benchmarks/blog/chargeback-rate-benchmarks
660 AI visits· 1.9% convert
PCI checklist/guides/pci-compliance-checklist
520 AI visits· 2.4% convert
Pricing/pricing
400 AI visits· 6.8% convert
Sign-ups
89
GA4 key event · from 4,475 AI-referred visits · 12 weeks
How it works
Connect. Classify. Join.
01 · Connect
Connect GA4
Link the GA4 property you already run, in one click. Mentionova reads the sessions GA4 has already recorded; there's nothing to add to your site.
GA4 · northpay.com- GA4 propertyconnected
- Sessions read12 weeks
- Referral channel9,876
- Key eventsign_up
Reads what GA4 already recorded · no tag to add
02 · Classify
Split out the engines
Visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and other AI assistants are separated from the rest of the Referral channel and charted week by week.
AI traffic · last 12 weeks- ChatGPT2,935
- Perplexity866
- Gemini433
- Claude241
Split out of Referral, week by week
03 · Join
Tie visits to pages
Each AI visit is joined to the page it landed on and whether it converted, so you see where AI search sends buyers and what they're worth.
Pages · last 12 weeksPage AI visits Converts Orchestration guide 1,180 3.1% Chargeback benchmarks 660 1.9% PCI checklist 520 2.4% Pricing 400 6.8% GA4 sessions from AI engines, by landing page
Pages
Traffic, next to the citations.
Every published page lined up with its GA4 traffic, Search Console clicks and impressions, and the AI citations it earns, so you see which pages get quoted and which ones get the visits.
- GA4 sessions and Search Console clicks per page
- The AI citations the same page earns
- Which pages get quoted, and which get the visits
GA4 + Search Console + citations
Reporting
Growth you can put on a slide.
Totals are compared with the prior period, and AI visitors' conversion sits next to your site-wide rate for the same window, so the week AI traffic moved is easy to spot and easy to explain.
- Compared with the prior period
- AI conversion against the site average
- Ready for the people who sign off the budget
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Mark RegalSaaS FounderAI Traffic Analytics · FAQ
Questions, answered.
AI traffic analytics is the measurement of visits that arrive from AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Claude, separated from the rest of your referral traffic. When an engine cites your page and a reader clicks the link, the visit usually lands in GA4 as a referral. Analytics built for AI search splits those visits out by engine, ties them to the pages they reached, and reports how they convert, so AI search shows up as a channel of its own instead of noise.
ChatGPT referral traffic is measured from the referrer on each visit. When someone clicks a cited link in a ChatGPT answer, GA4 usually records the session with a ChatGPT referrer inside the Referral channel. Mentionova reads your GA4 property, classifies those referrers by engine, and reports sessions, landing pages and conversions for each one. Visits that arrive without a referrer can't be attributed this way, so read the figures as the floor of what AI search sends you, not the ceiling.
AI search analytics measures what happens after the answer: the visits, landing pages and conversions AI engines send to your site. AI visibility tracking measures the answer itself: whether the engines name you, cite you, and where. You need both. Visibility shows whether you are in the answer; traffic shows whether being there brings buyers. Mentionova runs both from one workspace, so a citation you win can be checked against the visits it sent.
Mentionova classifies GA4 referral visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Claude, and charts each engine as its own band, week by week. You see each engine's share of your AI sessions, the pages those visits land on, and how they convert. It reads the GA4 property you already run, so there is nothing to install on your site.
Yes. ChatGPT gets its own band in the weekly chart, with its share of your AI sessions and its trend against the prior period. In a default GA4 setup, ChatGPT referral traffic sits inside the Referral channel with everything else; Mentionova separates it, so you can report it as a number of its own.
AI search analytics is the reporting layer for visits that come from AI answer engines: how many sessions each engine sends, which pages they land on, and how those visitors convert. It complements AI visibility tracking, which measures whether the answer names and cites you. Together they show whether winning the answer turns into buyers.
No. Mentionova connects to the GA4 property you already have, in one click, and reads the sessions already recorded there. You don't re-tag your site or rebuild channel groups; AI referrers are separated from the rest of the Referral channel inside Mentionova, and your GA4 reports stay as they are.
It depends on your site, which is why it is measured rather than assumed. Mentionova puts the conversion rate of AI visitors next to your site-wide rate for the same window, using the conversions GA4 already records, and lists the landing pages behind the difference, so you can see which pages turn AI visits into customers.
Pages and AI traffic attribution is part of every paid plan, from Starter for brands and Launch for agencies upward. It sits alongside prompt tracking, opportunities with ready briefs, and workflows and grids, so the visits AI search sends can be read next to the answers that sent them. Every paid plan starts with a free trial.
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