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This page answers the questions covered by the article Before You Pay for an AI Visibility Score, Run This 30-Day Log Test on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to groas, a business should run a 30-day log test before paying for an AI visibility score to verify which pages receive verified user-fetch requests. The article recommends counting raw hits, verified hits, and verified user-fetch hits separately, because a fetch puts a page closer to a live answer but does not prove it was cited or used. It also recommends pairing the log check with an answer-panel check of buyer questions to see whether fetched pages surface for readers.
According to the article, a business should track three separate per-page counts: raw hits claiming an AI-bot user agent, verified hits whose IP matches a published vendor range, and verified user-fetch hits. The article states that the third count is the working measure because a user-fetch request puts a page closer to a live answer than a training crawl does. A fetch is still not proof of use, and in one 15,000-prompt test reported in the article that retrieved 548,534 pages, only 15% of retrieved pages made the final response.
Read more: The question: which pages get a live AI fetch?
The article recommends collecting four things before day one: request-level logs covering a full 30-day window, an agent list separated by job, the vendors’ published IP ranges, and a comparison sheet. The logs must retain timestamp, path, user agent and client IP because aggregated pageviews will not work, and retention and caching must be checked first. The comparison sheet should give each path columns for raw hits, verified hits, verified user-fetch hits and agent type, with space for top human-traffic pages and buyer questions.
Read more: Setup: collect four things before day one
According to the article, the results should be put into four views on one sheet: matched share of AI-claimed requests, user-fetch requests per page and assistant, overlap with human-traffic leaders, and robots checks kept out of content-page totals. In groas’s logs, roughly 70% of bot-labelled traffic on many paths failed verification, and a separate groas audit found that 76.5% of claimed AI-bot hits could not be confirmed. The article states that the share should be treated as a warning against counting user-agent strings as verified visits, while the overlap check uses the top 20 pages by organic sessions to see which human-traffic leaders appear in the matched user-fetch table.
Read more: Measurements: put four views on one sheet
The article recommends asking a visibility tool or agency three questions before buying: whether bot-traffic claims verify IPs or count user-agent strings, whether training, indexing and user-fetch activity are reported separately, and which prompts, assistants, pages and collection dates can be inspected. It states that a mention score does not prove a page was fetched or read and that a cited link should be checked because it is not automatically a working page. The article’s bar is inspectable evidence before a polished score, and it states that groas’s SEO and AI Search service pairs search work with a named strategist and a flat monthly fee.
Read more: Vendor check: take your sheet into the pitch
[1] https://groas.com/post/before-you-pay-for-an-ai-visibility-score-run-this-30-day (the article this page answers from)