How do I see orders and traffic from AI agents?
Look in three places: order attribution in your commerce platform (Shopify, for example, labels orders from AI channels), referral sources in your analytics, and server or CDN logs for agent user agents and signed requests. Purchases made inside an AI channel may never visit your site, so platform reports matter most. ARC doesn't see your traffic.
Short answer
Traffic or sales from agents: Not measuredNot measuredARC does not see your orders, referrals or logs.
Platform order attribution
Shopify's agentic storefronts docs say orders from AI channels carry channel attribution in the admin. Other platforms differ. That attribution is in your admin, not in ARC.
Analytics referrals
When a shopper lands on your site from an assistant, your analytics may show a referral source. Purchases that stay inside the assistant may never hit your site, so the referral report is incomplete on purpose.
Logs and signed agent requests
Server and CDN logs can show an agent user agent, and some agents sign requests. Your CDN's bot analytics is the place to read that. ARC does not collect it.
What you can't see
A purchase that never visits your site will not appear as a session. A blocked agent will not appear as an order. Neither gap is a zero in ARC's data.
Benchmark readiness, not traffic, on ARC
The store page is a readiness check: checkout link, block, and browser cart when a score exists. It is not a traffic report. Should I block AI agents? is about the block, not the sales.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I see orders and traffic from AI agents?
- Look in three places: order attribution in your commerce platform (Shopify, for example, labels orders from AI channels), referral sources in your analytics, and server or CDN logs for agent user agents and signed requests. Purchases made inside an AI channel may never visit your site, so platform reports matter most. ARC doesn't see your traffic.
- Can I see ChatGPT referrals?
- Usually as a referral source in analytics, when the shopper lands on your site. ARC does not measure that traffic.
- Do in-chat purchases show up?
- On platforms that support it, orders carry channel attribution in your admin. ARC does not see those orders.
- Does ARC report my traffic?
- No. ARC measures readiness, not traffic.
On ARC
Cite this: ARC, arcreport.ai, accessed 2026-10-13, CC-BY-4.0. Protocol figures: ARC saved checks, accessed 2026-10-13 (13 October 2026). Index browser figures: ARC open dataset snapshot 2026-10-12. Platform figures: ARC saved checks, accessed 2026-10-13.
Every figure is labelled Measured, Inferred or Not measured. Not measured is not zero. A missing result is not a mark against a store. ARC stops before payment.