Ansera Search vs Smalk AI Analytics

Ansera Search replaces the default WordPress search with an intuitive AI powered answer engine based on your site’s existing content. We all know that when website visitors can’t find the answers they’re looking for, they will leave in frustration never to return. Traditional website search just returns a list of links for visitors to sort through themselves while most chatbot solutions are annoying and require significant set up. Ansera solves for these issues and more by providing your website visitors with human readable natural language search responses based only on your site’s content. Unlike traditional website search tools, Ansera can be up and running in as little as 5 minutes by even the least technical users. Once you install Ansera on your site, all you have to do is select the pages you want to train it to answer on. Additionally, you can link to externally stored content like youtube and vimeo videos or presentations. Ansera’s analytics let you see what answers your users are actually seeking and how to improve your content and conversion to better serve them. Features: – Out of the box set up while also providing several visual customization options for more advanced users – Human readable natural language search results – Real-time sync that updates answers as site content is updated – User analytics for all search queries – Customizable guiding questions – Visitors can email results to themselves – Integrate a custom lead generation form into the Ansera widget Bring conversational AI search to your site in minutes – no coding required! Privacy This plugin uses the following third-party services to provide its functionality: Google reCAPTCHA v3 – Used to detect and prevent spam/bot traffic. It collects user interaction data for verification. See Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. reCAPTCHA v3 works by collecting hardware and software information, such as device and application data, and sending it to Google to analyze whether a user is human. This process is automatic and invisible to users. This feature will be enabled after you provide Google ReCaptch V3 api credentials. api.ipify.org API – Used to determine user geolocation based on IP address. See geo.ipify.org Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Whenever user asks the question in the searchbox, we will call this api and fetch that user’s ip address. We are not passing any customer information to the api server. api.ansera.ai – This is the API server of the Ansera.ai platform. It receives content submitted by the WordPress admin from the plugin’s settings page and returns AI-generated responses. ON plugin activation wordpress pages will be sent to Ansera website. WordPress Administrator/Editor can manage sync/unsyc the posts from plugin settings page. See www.Ansera.ai Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. dashboard.ansera.ai — Used to render analytics dashboards based on data collected by the api.ansera.ai service. It does not collect or access any data from the WordPress site itself. See www.Ansera.ai Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. ansera-cdn.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com — Ansera developed a CDN javascript library and published it to Amazon S3 storage engine. This plugin renders the Ansera CDN from Amazon S3 bucket. Complete frontend UI will be rendered from this Javascript CDN library. See www.Ansera.ai Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. See aws.amazon.com Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. No personal information is stored by the plugin itself, but IP addresses may be transmitted to external APIs.

See the AI agents and AI Search visitors your site actually receives — and never lose an event again. The web is shifting from search results to answer engines. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and dozens of other AI crawlers visit your pages every day, and a growing share of your human traffic now arrives from an AI assistant rather than a classic SERP. Most analytics tools were built for the old web and miss all of it. Smalk AI Analytics adds an AI-aware tracking layer to your WordPress site: every public-page visit (AI agent OR human-from-AI-search) is captured, classified, and pushed to your Smalk dashboard where you can see which engines cite you, which pages they prefer, and how that AI exposure converts into real human traffic. Unlike crawler-blocking plugins, Smalk does not block AI bots. It helps you measure, optimize, and turn AI exposure into growth. KEY FEATURES Tracking Real-time capture of AI agent visits (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GeminiBot, GoogleOther, OAI-SearchBot, Mistral, AppleBot-Extended, and 30+ others) plus human visitors arriving from AI search engines. Two tracking layers: a lightweight hook captures bot traffic (which never executes JavaScript) AND a tracker.js snippet captures human session context. Both feed the same Smalk dashboard. Rich proxy header capture (Cloudflare, geo, X-Forwarded-For, X-Real-IP, X-Smalk-CMS) so bot classification stays accurate even behind CDNs. Reliability (new in 1.1.0) Local MySQL queue buffers visits when the Smalk API is briefly unreachable — no more lost events during transient outages. Background cron flushes the queue every minute via a batched endpoint (up to 500 visits per request). Built-in circuit breaker pauses outbound calls after repeated failures and resumes automatically. Per-row exponential-backoff retry + daily cleanup of stale entries. “Direct” fallback mode for sites that prefer the old fire-and-forget behavior (no queue table). Privacy & compliance Per-site redact list for query parameters (passwords, tokens, credit-card and SSN-style keys are redacted by default before any value leaves your server). Deny-paths textarea with wildcards on top of a strict built-in exclusion list (/wp-admin, /wp-login, /wp-json, /xmlrpc.php, REST API calls, favicon, etc.). Per-request-type skip toggles (admin / cron / AJAX / REST) — admin / cron / AJAX skipped by default. No cookies are set on visitors. Admin experience Modern card-based settings page with a 4-tile Status & Diagnostics panel: queue size, last successful send, circuit-breaker state, last error — refreshed live on every action. One-click Send test event (probes the Smalk API with a X-Smalk-Probe: 1 header so the test never appears in your real analytics), Force-flush queue now, Resume sending (reset circuit breaker), and Clear page caches (purges WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, Autoptimize, WP Super Cache, Hummingbird, FlyingPress, SG Optimizer, WP Fastest Cache, Cache Enabler, WP Engine, plus the WordPress object cache and PHP OPcache). Auto-save when you paste a new API key — no scrolling to “Save changes”. Debug report generator: collects plugin version, queue + sender stats, cron schedules, detected cache plugins, live connectivity probes, and active plugins into a single text blob you can email to support — never dumps raw error_log (no risk of leaking unrelated secrets). Performance + for the tracker origin before the async script tag — saves ~50–150 ms TLS+DNS handshake on cold connections (mostly mobile / first-time visitors). Tracker JS auto-excluded from 10+ caching/minify plugins (WP Rocket, Autoptimize, W3TC, LiteSpeed, SG Optimizer, Hummingbird, FlyingPress, Asset CleanUp, …) so caching never strips it. Zero impact on TTFB: every flavor of outbound call is either non-blocking (direct mode) or deferred to cron (queued mode, the default). WHY CHOOSE SMALK AI See AI traffic accurately. Most analytics drop AI agents entirely (they don’t run JS); Smalk catches them and classifies them in real time. Never lose an event. The queued mode keeps tracking your site even when our API is briefly unreachable. Privacy-first defaults. Sensitive query parameters are redacted, admin / cron / AJAX requests are skipped, no cookies on visitors. No bot blocking. Smalk helps you grow your AI footprint, not shrink it. Plays nicely with every host and cache. Tested on WP 5.0 / PHP 7.0 through WP 6.9 / PHP 8.3. Auto-detects and works around the major caching / minify plugins. EXTERNAL SERVICES This plugin connects to Smalk AI’s API services for analytics and tracking functionality. The following data transmissions occur: Analytics Tracking: The plugin sends website visit data to api.smalk.ai when AI agents visit your site Data sent includes: visit information, page URLs, and user agent data Project Configuration: The plugin connects to the Smalk API to retrieve project settings when the API key is saved or updated Project data is cached locally and reused — no API calls are made on page loads Only authenticated API requests are made using your project key No personal user data is transmitted during these requests For more information about our data handling practices, please visit: – Terms of Service: https://smalkapp.notion.site/Terms-of-service-Smalk-9f047b4200b84b70a4fb38142cfb5799 – Privacy Policy: https://smalkapp.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-Smalk-08a503612b3e481596b0a434e96dd7c1?pvs=74