> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://academy.trackbase.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Follow individual pages with the Page tracker

> The Page tracker follows single URLs and shows whether AI crawlers visit them, whether AI answers cite them and whether they bring visitors.

The Page tracker in Trackbase answers the question you have right after publishing or updating a page: how is this URL doing in AI? It is a watchlist of individual pages, your own or a competitor's, with three signals per page. You find it under **Page tracker** in the menu.

![The Page tracker in Trackbase with summary cards and a table of tracked pages showing AI crawls, citations, prompts, AI visits and flags such as Gaining, Issues and Not cited. Example data.](https://mintcdn.com/trackbase/3L0jUS0Gnf-g9E7B/images/page-tracker.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=3L0jUS0Gnf-g9E7B\&q=85\&s=a23f95f31de676d90d0d934025be5eb7)

## Three signals per page

| Signal | Question it answers | Where the data comes from |
| - | - | - |
| **Crawls** | Do crawlers, including AI crawlers, visit the page? | [Crawler analytics](https://academy.trackbase.ai/crawler-analytics.md) |
| **Citations** | Is the page cited in AI answers to your prompts? | The sources in your prompt answers |
| **Clicks** | Does the page bring visitors from AI? | [Visitor analytics](https://academy.trackbase.ai/visitor-analytics.md) |

The signals form a funnel. A page cannot be cited if it is not crawled, and it cannot bring AI visitors if it is not cited. Reading them in that order tells you where a page gets stuck.

| What you see | What it means | What to do |
| - | - | - |
| No crawls | Crawlers do not reach the page. | Check robots.txt, internal links, your sitemap and your firewall. |
| Crawls, no citations | The page is read but not used. | Work on the content: answer the questions behind your prompts more directly. |
| Citations | The page works as a source. | Check the clicks, and keep the page current. |
| Crawls or citations that stopped | Something changed. | Check for a redirect, a removed page or a new block. |

> [!NOTE]
>
> Crawls and clicks need crawler analytics and visitor analytics to be connected. Without them the Page tracker can only show citations.

## Add pages

Add up to 50 URLs at a time. Trackbase also suggests pages to track: pages on your domain that are already cited or crawled and that you do not track yet.

Trackbase treats spelling variants of a URL as one page. `http` and `https`, with or without `www`, a trailing slash, and tracking parameters such as `utm_source` all lead to the same tracked page.

Your plan sets how many pages you can track.

## Flags

A page can carry one or more flags. Each compares the selected period with the period before it.

| Flag | When it appears |
| - | - |
| **Not cited** | The page was crawled but not cited in the selected period. |
| **Losing** | The page has clearly fewer citations than in the previous period. |
| **Gaining** | The page has clearly more citations than in the previous period. |
| **Issues** | An AI crawler got an error on this page, or Trackbase found the page broken or unreachable. |

## Automatic status check

Trackbase checks every tracked page itself, when you add it and once a day after that. This catches a dead page even when no AI crawler happened to visit it. If the page returns an error or cannot be reached, it gets the **Issues** flag and the explanation says what the check found.

## The page detail

Open a page to see:

* the prompts whose answers cite it, with how often
* which pages are cited instead in answers that do not cite yours
* citations per model
* AI crawler visits per crawler, for the last 30 days
* which brands are named in the answers that cite the page

## Use cases

* **Prove a new article.** Track it on the day you publish and watch crawls, then citations, then clicks appear.
* **Guard your key pages.** A **Losing** or **Issues** flag on a landing page is an early warning.
* **Check a migration.** Track the most cited URLs before you move them, and watch whether crawls and citations continue.
* **Watch a competitor page.** Track the page that keeps being cited for a prompt you want to win.


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