PerplexityBot

About this crawler

PerplexityBot is Perplexity’s training crawler. Perplexity's indexing crawler. Lower-volume than the OpenAI/Anthropic equivalents but Perplexity's answers are very heavily citation-driven, so being indexed pays back in citation density per query.

How this page works

1. Every request to findloc.ai passes through a Next.js middleware.
2. If the User-Agent matches a known AI bot pattern, one row is inserted into the ai_crawler_visits Postgres table. Fire-and-forget so the bot’s response isn’t slowed.
3. This page queries that table via three SECURITY DEFINER RPCs (ai_bot_hit_counts, ai_bot_daily_hits, ai_bot_top_paths) on every render.
4. Page response is cached for 1 hour via Next.js ISR — so DB load is bounded even under load, and the freshest number is always at most 60 minutes old.